On Mar 8, 11:16*pm, Martin wrote:
On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 15:49:41 -0700 (PDT), Judith in France



wrote:
On Mar 8, 5:59*pm, Sacha wrote:
On 8/3/09 17:15, in article
, "Judith

in France" wrote:
On Mar 8, 5:01*pm, Sacha wrote:
On 8/3/09 16:58, in article
, "Judith in

France" wrote:
On Mar 8, 4:37*pm, Sacha wrote:
On 8/3/09 16:25, in article
, "Judith

in France" wrote:
http://i40.tinypic.com/2qxauly.jpg

This was growing Mounts Botanical Gardens at West Palm Beach and I
thought it was beautiful. *For size comparison see my hand. *Would it
be possible to grow or is it a hot place tree/shrub which maybe could
survive in a heated garden room, which I don't have, yet.

Many thanks

Could be a Cestrum, possibly fasciculatum Newellii. *If it is, it wouldn't
be hardy with you, so you'd have to grow it in a pot. *Even then, it might
not get to that size of leaf and flower cluster in your garden but it's
still a lovely thing and worth growing. *Cestrum nocturnum is another
stunner in a sunny garden because it releases a fabulous scent at night.

If I grew it in a large pot, one like my Oleander grows in, I posted a
pic of that last year, do you think it would survive an unheated
drawing room in Winter?

Judith

Not below around -7C. *Charlie had much lower temps than us this year so may
be able to tell you more from personal experience. *Ours live in a
greenhouse where gentle heating comes on if it falls below 0C. *We can grow
C. parquii outside.

Our house is an L shape and we only heat one side of the L, we shut up
the other wing for the Winter as fuel is so expensive. I will put in a
max/mim thermometer just to see what it falls to, there is still snow
on the higher mountains here but it's not so cold so maybe it's too
late to take an accurate Winter reading.

Judith

I haven't checked today's outside temps today but all I can tell you is that
it's damn cold, still light and the curtains in my study are drawn to keep
the house warm! *The design of your house sounds extremely sensible but I
trust you have a sturdy door between one half of 'l' and the other. *;-)
--
Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online

It has been a lovely day here which we spent with friends, the ones I
told you about. We have not only a stout door between the L but three
feet walls! * It's time to go to bed now and I am pleasantly relaxed,
a good bottle of wine shared with friends does that to me. *Now, to
keep on topic, this is such a cold area but I notice friends have
vines, the local wine that I like is St. Pourcain , I might just have
a go at putting in just two vines and see what happens any advice from
anyone would be welcome I wonder if Emerys or David in Normandy have
vines?

We have vines and have had very hard frosts & cold winters *since I planted the
first one, which is 36 years old this year.
--

Martin

Martin, care to tell me the which one it is? (Don't say nope,
otherwise...)

Judith