Just Two More Silvers, To Make 30. This is another non-native naughty boy - Eucalyptus gunnii. Why have I introduced an Australian to an Italian garden? It’s silver, firstly, but not only… This eucalyptus is supposed to be a mini thing which will not grow into grossness as some of its relatives do in the UK… but the name under which it was sold doesn’t match the description I was given or what I’ve read in the Plant Bible, the RHS Encyclopedia of Garden Plants… There I’ve read it can grow up to 25 meters tall. At any rate, the slightly harsh winers (-5° Celcius, sometimes -10) manage to kill off anything sticking above the soil, so I lop off the dead branches every spring and then in the summer it shoots up again, but remains a bit scrawny. I’m guessing it will never grow to be as large as the willow which grows only 5 or 6 metres from it. View high resolution

Just Two More Silvers, To Make 30.

This is another non-native naughty boy - Eucalyptus gunnii. Why have I introduced an Australian to an Italian garden? It’s silver, firstly, but not only…

This eucalyptus is supposed to be a mini thing which will not grow into grossness as some of its relatives do in the UK… but the name under which it was sold doesn’t match the description I was given or what I’ve read in the Plant Bible, the RHS Encyclopedia of Garden Plants… There I’ve read it can grow up to 25 meters tall.

At any rate, the slightly harsh winers (-5° Celcius, sometimes -10) manage to kill off anything sticking above the soil, so I lop off the dead branches every spring and then in the summer it shoots up again, but remains a bit scrawny. I’m guessing it will never grow to be as large as the willow which grows only 5 or 6 metres from it.