£105.00 – £600.00
A truly small Eucalyptus species that should reach around 6-7m (18 feet) over 15 years. Short term it will form a small tree of around 12 feet – an excellent choice for the smaller garden with normal to free-draining soils.
Why we like this variety:
Eucalyptus gregsoniana – The Wolgan Snow Gum
A small tree or multi-branched, slender-stemmed mallee – unique and unusual for a snow gum. A light, open airy habit, it is ideal for a sheltered garden or coastal region. Although this species is genetically a mallee (multi-stemmed), it can be grown either with many stems or easily cultivated to maintain a single trunk. Our nursery trees are mainly grown as single stemmed standards. Occasionally we offer a few multi-stemmed specimens.
Shoots ‘n’ Leaves: New buds are a bright emerald green. Young stems are a delicious burgundy wine red, sometimes with shades of tangerine.
Juvenile foliage: Long slender olive green leaves.
Adult foliage: Glossy slender willow-like leaves of dark olive green, hang in attractive bunches from slender weeping crimson branchlets. Each leaf is approximately 70-100 mm long and 10-25 mm wide, with prominent parallel venation.
Bark: Mature bark is silvery pewter grey, sometimes with sable or flecks of gold; peels beautifully in ribbons, to reveal smooth creamy white bark.
Flowers: Magnificent! White fluffy and very profuse, attractive pollinating insects, butterflies and bees. Flower clusters are spherical, a little larger than a golf ball carried in large numbers – flowers May/June – very impressive.
Leaf Aroma: Typical Eucalyptus aroma.
Rate of Growth: Slow growing at 1m per year, responds well to having its head pruned at the correct time of year.
Height in maturity, if left unpruned: Short term – around 12 feet. It should not exceed 18-20 feet over a 15 year time-frame.
Hardiness: Supposedly not as hardy as other snow gums, but the root-system should be generally good down to -8°C, possibly down to -12°C, when mature. Great species for the more southerly counties of England (draw a line across the country east from Gloucester), also the West coast of England and Scotland
OR if you are a Garden Pioneer and like a challenge – a sheltered garden anywhere else – give it a go. Strangely enough – it is growing well in the ground at Grafton Nursery!
It may be worth providing a newly planted young tree with a horticultural fleece tent for the very coldest times in a very cold winter, until mature and well established.
Tolerant of arid environments, poor stony dry soils once established. It is essential that your Euc. is given our recommended quantity of water for its first 2 growing seasons in your grounds, during its establishment phase before you abandon it to its fate. The tree needs to establish a good root system before it can survive in dry, challenging conditions.
| Weight | 3 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 150 × 50 × 50 cm |
| Size | 3 litre airpot: 150-180cm tree, 7 litre airpot: 150-180cm tree, 7 litre airpot: 180-210 cm tree, 12 litre airpot: 210-240cm tree, 20 litre airpot: 240-270cm tree, 30 litre airpot: 270-300cm tree |
Eucalyptus gregsoniana – The Wolgan Snow Gum
Requirements:
Recommendations:
Eucalyptus gregsoniana – The Wolgan Snow Gum
This species is recommended as a Specimen Tree for the wider landscape, arboretum collection and also for the small/medium/larger garden.
It can also be grown as shrub-on-a-stick clipped standard: this is an opportunity to grow a Eucalyptus in a confined space and control its overall size. You can produce a small tree on a trunk with a height of anywhere between 2.4m (8ft) and 4m (12ft)
How to grow a Standard Specimen Tree:
Planting the tree and running away is an option, but it won’t necessarily give you the best results. We recommend that you carry out some pruning about twice a year.
Inspect your tree every March 18th (National Eucalyptus Day) and decide how much pruning you need to do.
Growing in a container: We often get asked how to grow E gregsoniana in a pot.
Winter 2022 going into Spring 2023
Good stocks of 5 litre, 12 litre and 20 litre standards with a few tremendous specimens in 30 litre airpots
Botanical Name: Eucalyptus gregsoniana (syn. E. pauciflora subsp. ‘Nana’)
MYRTACEÆ; Myrtle Family
Common Name: The Wolgan Snow Gum, Mallee Snow Gum
Status: Evergreen Tree
Origin: The Blue Mountains, Budawang Range and South of Braidwood in south-eastern New South Wales
Our Seed Source: Alpine region of New South Wales
E. gregsoniana has a lignotuber at the base of the trunk. This ‘body’, full of dormant vegetative buds, is the tree’s aid to survival, assisting regeneration after a crisis event, such as a fire, a hard winter or excessive grazing (by an animal with a strong constitution and no taste buds!). The lignotuber is activated by the removal or death of the top part of the plant, whereupon it produces a mass of vigorous new shoots, which grow up to form the new tree.
Meaning of the name:
Part of the pauciflora group of Eucalypts, E. gregsoniana is often classified as E. pauciflora ssp. Nana
The native habitat of E. gregsoniana is high altitude locations, where it can be seen growing in alpine mallee groups amongst other shrubs; along ridges, on hills and flat land with free-draining soil.
Named gregsoniana after Eucalyptus enthusiasts, the Gregsons, a father and son from Mount Wilson, NSW. Back in 2020, we had the privilege of supplying their descendants with some Wolgan Snow Gum trees.
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