Has anyone got any experience of growing Araucaria angustifolia here in the
UK?

I recently ( mid March ) visited the Amsterdam Botanical Garden and
was surprised to see two young ( 2 metre high ) exotic looking trees
labelled " Araucaria ?angustifolia " growing in the open air.

They certainly weren't A. araucana of course and had only suffered
very slight frost damage. The point is it's been a cold winter in
Holland ... Dicksonia antarctica planted out in the same garden have been
completely defoliated.

Does anyone have experience of growing A. angustifolia in the UK and
know anything about it's cultivation?

chris arundel.
Yorkshire.

No, but note that farmers are being paid to reduce food production and plant trees in their fields, so plant proper monkey puzzle (hims and hers) so that future local inhabitants might have something to eat when the trees mature.

I had a lot of seedlings from quickly planted kernels collected in SW Wales. Research how to get one him to five or six hers. Sixteen productive trees should support a person for a year

Talk to Nick at Pan-Global Plants. He sells them, and is keeping a close eye on how well they do. Pan-Global Plants - Home
Btw, I would not infer that you can grow stuff in Yorkshire if you can grow it in Amsterdam. A is surprisingly mild for its location. You see stuff in Amsterdam I couldn't grow where I live, even though I am both south and west of it in south Bucks.

I've just read somewhere else that the one at Wisley is looking undamaged, and it was -10 or worse in that area.