Leptospermum (manuka) - can I grow it?

[Cazza]

I'm thinking about some new trees and shrubs for next season ( beeloved by bees of course.)
I'm assuming I can't grow the Manuka bush because it isn't very hardy? Can anyone dissprove this?
Ta
Cazza

 

[RoofTops]

This cultivar is supposed to be frost hardy so I guess they all probably are. It doesn't say Manuka on the page but that's what Leptospermum scoparium is.
http://www.gardeningexpress.co.uk/ProductDetails.asp?ProductID=3305

 

[Cazza]

Thanks Rooftops.
I saw that one when I googled but then saw the ones offered by Burncoose Nursery which say they cope to 0 deg C which then put me off. (As it's currently -4 here.) The proof is is the growing I suppose.
Cazza

 

[Hivemaker.]

It grows okay in Cornwall it seems.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/8110860.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/cornwall/hi/people_and_places/nature/newsid_8796000/8796789.stm

 

[Cazza]

Hi Hivemaker
Aren't they lucky!
Cornwall is so much warmer than the frost pocket I live in. They can grow lots of exotics which I can't.
I'm trying to think of things I can grow that they can't? Sorry, failed.
Beer is better though.
Cazza

 

[Skyhook]

There are slightly hardier varieties such as 'Red Damask', but the hardier ones all seem to be the double varieties, therefore presumably not much use.

 

[psafloyd]

Does anyone have one of these trees that we might try and propagate cuttings from?

 

[Erichalfbee]

Burncoose do hardier varieties, forgotten which ones but they have only about 15 to look through.
I've got some seeds from a member here so will try for next year, putting them in pots and bringing them in to a huge heated greenhouse in the winter.
If you CAN grow them take a look here
http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7858&highlight=nice+earner

 

[MODNOD]

Yes you can grow them in this country.

Have a look at County Park Nursery, Hornchurch, Essex.

 

[Cazza]

Yes you can grow them in this country.

Have a look at County Park Nursery, Hornchurch, Essex.

Thanks MODNOD, that looks like just what I was looking for. If they will grow in Hornchurch I would imagine they will work here.

Cazza

 

[Erichalfbee]

Ha!!!
I'm going to try them in Cumbria
Modnod who sent me some seeds

 

[MODNOD]

Thanks MODNOD, that looks like just what I was looking for. If they will grow in Hornchurch I would imagine they will work here.

Cazza

They grow fine in the wilds of bedfordshire, i will get a picture of mine.

Do give graham a ring (county park nursery), he is a bit off an oddball but he knows his stuff.

Nick.

 

[lazybee]

Obviously you can grow whatever you want, but personally I would and do grow native plants,shrubs,trees, is this such a bad thing? The wild plants here in France are pretty much the same as the UK.

 

[Cazza]

Obviously you can grow whatever you want, but personally I would and do grow native plants,shrubs,trees, is this such a bad thing? The wild plants here in France are pretty much the same as the UK.

Each to their own. I am a plantaholic and would find that too restrictive.
Cazza