We are happy to give advice on choice of species, suitability of site, etc. However, it is often very difficult to do this by correspondence because of the number of variables involved and letters can flow to and fro for some time. Whereas advice given on the telephone can address all the relevant points immediately.
The author is a grower but not a taxonomist. There are more than 500 species of Eucalypts of which about 50 can be grown in the U.K. There is often a great difference between immature, juvenile, intermediate and adult leaves of the same species. Many Eucalypt species hybridise readily and there are clines within species showing different physical characteristics. Hybrids and plants not true to type are rogued out at our Nurseries but others may not do this. For these reasons it may be impossible to identify a species if we have not grown it. |
