Went out walking yesterday and came across a corner of a Field that had been planted with Eucalyptus.
Somebody will be up a gum tree in a decade! ;D
For export to Oz ??? ??? ???
they are used for the paper-making industry :)
Quote from: saddad on November 18, 2009, 10:46:53
Somebody will be up a gum tree in a decade! ;D
A lot less than that. Those brutes grow faster than you can cut them. But I expect they are for the florist trade who use the juvenile leaves. They do coppice quite well and the new shoots come back quickly.
Is it true they deter gnats ???
No, but I have heard that koala bear crap does ;)