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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Thanks @punkdoc.  That's what I'm doing with all 3 tree seeds and they'll get a spell in the fridge if we don't get cold enough this winter. 
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I spoke to someone yesterday and she was saying she might have to put her tortoise into the fridge to start it hiberanating. :o
    Devon.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497

    Hostafan1 said:
    I spoke to someone yesterday and she was saying she might have to put her tortoise into the fridge to start it hiberanating. :o
    Sounds like the set-up for a TV sitcom episode. "That pie you made was delicious, love, but I had a bugger of a time cutting through the crust".

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    wild edges said:

    Hostafan1 said:
    I spoke to someone yesterday and she was saying she might have to put her tortoise into the fridge to start it hiberanating. :o
    Sounds like the set-up for a TV sitcom episode. "That pie you made was delicious, love, but I had a bugger of a time cutting through the crust".

    That actually made me laugh out loud. 
    Devon.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Sounds like a scene from "One Foot in the Grave".
  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    Hi you lot. Quitefrankly I can’t imagine why you’d want to germinate eucalypts. They take over everywhere. 😳. Even driving along the road where our local bushfires were burned to a crisp last summer, they’re are appearing everywhere. Both seedlings and buds shooting up the trunks .  Der.

    S. E. NSW
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I’d agree Pat,  they grow very big and very fast. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    AND they have a habit of dropping large branches without warning. 🙄
    S. E. NSW
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Oh yes, I can vouch for that as well.  A friend of ours had them lining his drive,  he had to get tree fellers in as they were too big for him to manage. 
    I had just one in the garden where we lived before here,  it was huge in no time. And a bit spindly. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I keep them as 3-4 foot shrubs, coppiced every year, and I think they look lovely with their juvenile blue foliage.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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