Traditionally Eucalyptus, although quite hardy, do not endure our winters to the North so well....hence their lack of current range past northern California. They really suffer in wet snows and "most" species cannot stand the quick winter storms that set in. When we have had "normal" winter days with precipitation and then we get freezes or Arctic blasts, they typically die or freeze to the ground. When the usual wet snow storms set in the lanky limbs usually bow and break from the weight of the heavy snows.

What species did you plant?

Bryan
Shoreline, Wa.
jennandbryan at msn.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Gilligan
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 7:21 PM
To: Owen Schmidt; SGMlod at aol.com; Tweeters
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Introduced Species

Sorry ? I sent the below message inadvertently before it was finished.


On 4/6/06 6:50 PM, "Jeff Gilligan" <jeffgill at teleport.com> wrote:


I planted six species of hardy eucalypts near the shore of Willapa Bay last weekend. In an earlier discussion of eucalypts on OBOl someone from California mentioned warblers and other insect eaters being attracted to eucalypts to eat ?lerps? - red gum psyllid lerps. I hope the eucalypts get big before any lerps find their way this far north.

Jeff Gilligan, Portland.


On 4/5/06 9:51 AM, "sgmlod at aol.com" <sgmlod at aol.com> wrote:


Greetings Yet Again

The vigorous defense of introduced species is the result of previous unbridled assaults on introduced species as being evil and utterly without value, worthy of utter and complete elimination.

This sounds extreme, but look through Tweeters archives.

While these assaults have taken place, I think a lot of folks have been afraid to speak out, as saying that an introduced species is valuable is definitely not politically correct.

Again, I am not saying that we introduce more species or not eradicate introduced species in certain circumstances. I am saying that the knee-jerk tendency to remove all introduced species wherever found can be actually harmful to our current ecological realities.

Best Wishes
Steven Mlodinow



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