Description
🎄Eucalyptus coccifera ‘Mt Hartz’- Tasmanian Snow Gum🎄
We love the aroma of the juvenile foliage of Eucalyptus coccifera ‘Mt Hartz’, especially on a warm summer evening – sweetly spicy with a hint of Eucalyptus. It makes a fabulous bushy shrub and won’t grow into a monster. Great cut foliage for the house.
Eucalyptus coccifera ‘Mt Hartz’ responds well to pruning. It can be grown in many ways – bushy shrub, shrub-on-a-stick, lollipop, full sized architectural tree with the most amaaaazing bark!
Eucalyptus coccifera ‘Mt Hartz’ makes a great potted specimen. Click here for more information on how to grow Eucs in pots and keep ’em happy.
Hop over to the ‘How to Use’ Tab to see more information on how this species can be enjoyed or used in the landscape or garden – such as ecology, screening hedges, coastal adaptability etc.
The ‘Planting and Soil’ Tab advises on this Eucs preferred growing conditions– its likes and dislikes and how you can keep it happy in your garden.
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Biometrics for Eucalyptus coccifera ‘Mt Hartz’ – Tasmanian Snow Gum or the Mount Wellington Peppermint
Shoots ‘n Leaves: Young shoots are shiny, ‘bobbly’ in texture and maroon (sometimes orangey-yellow) in colour with a white bloom, maturing to a coffee colour.
Juvenile foliage is a deep jade green, sometime with purple undersides and lanceolate in shape.
Adult foliage is long, willow-like and elegant, about 5-10cm long and 1-2cm wide, glossy jade green to sage green; typical eucalyptus colour on bright white or golden smooth stems; dramatically different from the juvenile foliage.
Bark: Beautiful – a striking mosaic patchwork of silver, pearl grey and white reminiscent of E. pauciflora group, but often with striations of coffee and rich chestnut.
Flowers: Eucalyptus coccifera ‘Mt Hartz’ has striking silvery flower buds carried throughout early Autumn (typically September to October) in groups of 3, 7 or 9, open white.
Leaf Aroma: Wonderful strong, warm spicy peppermint aroma. I love to hand water the young trees on a warm summer evening, as the fragrance is striking.
Rate of Growth: Can be kept pruned as a fragrant bushy shrub of around 1.5 to 3m (5ft to 10ft) and anywhere in between. Medium – 1-1.5 m (3-4 ft) per year.
Height in maturity, if left unpruned: Sometime grows to only a small mallee of around 5m; can become taller in optimum conditions over 20 years. It can be shy to get going, becoming faster growing with time.
Easy to keep smaller by regular pruning – March 18th and end of May. See below for further pruning information.
If pruned, it can be trained to form a bushy screening tree, a lollipop standard or a multi-stemmed bush like a Pittosporum. Responds well to coppicing and pollarding, when done at the right time of year. Unless you are growing for cut foliage, please refrain from voluntarily electing to prune your Eucalyptus from August through to February; it can kill it. Cut foliage is traditionally harvested on the run up to Christmas.
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Hardiness: Once established: Extremely hardy and tolerates exposed conditions. Long renowned for being cold hardy in the UK. Down to -10 to -16°C mark, once mature.
Eucalyptus coccifera originates from Mount Hartz, a freezing cold mountainous district at the southern tip of Tasmania and enjoys cool summer months with slow but steady growth – so should be happy in the UK!
Hardiness in Eucalyptus is governed by
- provenance of seed (all our seed is sourced from frosty or cold locations)
- how it is grown (i.e. high nitrogen levels reduces cold tolerance),
- the age of the tree – the older your tree, the hardier it will be. Younger Eucs are more susceptible to frost damage.
- how long it has been planted in the ground. The deeper you can encourage the rooting by digging a deep planting pit at the time of installation, the quicker your tree will establish and you will increase its ability to survive cold winters. See our planting notes for more details.
For more information on how to increase the winter hardiness of your Eucalyptus – click here to see our Guidance Notes
These notes on how to help your Euc become more hardy in your garden setting are quite long and I’ve been told ‘not for the faint-hearted’! They are meant to be quite all-encompassing and well-intentioned. You can always skip to the last page to look at the salient points!