Heat Tolerant Conifers
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Salt Tolerant, heat tolerant and fragrant?
Comments (6)I've seen a research article that determined 'Perle d'Or' had good salt tolerance on par with Rosa rugosa (I'm not sure about salt air; I think they were working with soil only) and recommended it for trial planting in saline-soil parts of Egypt. It certainly has heat tolerance, and is also quite fragrant and has good disease resistance....See MoreConifers for Southeastern US z 8/9
Comments (13)Strike anything from your list not from China or the humid side (i.e., Brazil and Argentina) of South America. All those Tasmania/NZ plants will die sooner or later. You realize most of NZ & Tasmania have summers as cool or cooler/wetter than SE England? The record high, ever, for most of that biome is 32C, which is Charleston's average high. I wouldn't rule out a Australian mainland conifer surviving there: you might try a Wollemia although it could eventually die of root rot. One remaining clone sounds like a genetic bottleneck to me. Calocedrus probably doesn't do well south of Washington DC. It comes from the very dry summer Seirra Nevada and it's slightly remarkable it does as well in SE PA & NJ as it does, but I've seen some great ones. The NCSU arb. does list one (http://www.ncsu.edu/jcraulstonarboretum/horticulture/current_plantings/current_plantings_details.php?serialnumber=0002094), but I don't remember seeing any there, and four feet of growth after 10 years isn't a good sign. OTOH, the coast Redwood DOES grow well in NC, and would be an option for you, assuming you have the space. You can find plenty of discussions in past threads of firs that might grow down there, Abies firma is probably the only sure bet for coastal SC. You don't mention Pseudotsuga wilsoniana, although, having no fragrance, it's perhaps a bit boring compared to douglas fir, which definitely isn't an option. You see a few in SE PA, but they don't look too happy. I know of a wealthy guy from Colorado who's been trying to grow them on his Main Line estate, he can't get them established....See Morenorway spruce grown in the southeast
Comments (2)I am a big fan of Norway spruce and its wide adaptability, but based on what I have seen so far, which I admit is not very much, I can't really recommend it for the southeast. Here in Northern VA it does really wonderfully, even in the hotter and drier places. One of the best specimens I know is in Upper Marlboro MD. But driving sough through VA I notice fewer and fewer nice ones, and no really great ones by the time I get to Charlottesville, VA. I have seen some OK trees in Asheville, NC, in the mountains, but driving south east to places like Savannah, I don't remember seeing many, if any. But there are places in the north, such as in parts of the Finger Lakes region of NY where I don't see many nice ones. I think it is sometimes a soil nutrients issue, but I am not sure what. Perhaps magnesium, but I am only guessing. Anyway, there is no harm in trying some. I have posted elsewhere about the seen source/strain issue. In any case, you have the native pines, and of course baldcypress. I usually don't like to plant trees in places where they are not really fully suited. I would rather have a glorious loblolly pine than a poor NS. --Spruce...See MoreMissing Post
Comments (5)Yeah, old threads die when they drop off the end of page 67. Currently, that's from around April 2007. If there's any other old threads of value heading down that way, add a new post to them before they go to bring them back to the top. Whether it'll be findable on any of the various internet archive sites such as web.archive.org I don't know; probably worth a look, but I'd not know myself how to find it there. Resin...See Moregoted
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