Embothrium coccineum

[MikeC]

Anyone grown one? How big in the UK do they get after say 10 or 15 years? (it's a small garden).

What sort of soil are you growing them in?

Any pictures?

How do you avoid phosphate fertilizers?


Really like the look of these large shrubs/trees but they sound difficult and I don't want something that's going to get too big.

[MikeC]

Actually I might be talking about EMBOTHRIUM lanceolatum.

[Conifers]

Actually I might be talking about EMBOTHRIUM lanceolatum.

That's just a variety of E. coccineum

How big after 10-15 years? - depends on where you are. Maybe 4-5 metres in the far west, maybe just a metre in drier, cooler regions, maybe nothing at all in a cold area

[Bob]

A house down the road from me has a group of three.







These were pruned back a year before I took these pictures in 2009. You can see the owner digging me up a sucker (which I failed with) they are lime haters btw.

[MikeC]

Thanks for the photos. I love this tree, sadly the space I've got in this postage stamp sized garden won't accommodate a tree of that size. Don't want to be having to chop it down in 10 or 15 years time.

When I move to a house with a large garden, it's a must have.

[jungle jas]

Don't give up on it to soon, I went to a garden in south Wales this weekend in the NGS scheme. This guy had two and pruned them into a small narrow bush. They were in full flower looked great. The guy reckoned they stay in flower for 5 weeks. I am going to try and find one. Does any one know how much frost they will take. I know they grow in Bodnant Garden North Wales.