~2000 Paulownia seeds for $10.00

[royal_paulownia]

We've been growing Paulownia for over 20 years!

We have plenty of stock and plenty of fertile seeds!

[John McGaw]

Why do you keep trying to sell weed seeds? I'm sure everyone already has all the weeds they need.

[Andy Dingley]

Well I'd love to grow Paulownia, but when I looked at the weather conditions for my plot (in _Wales_ of all places) it just didn't have the water to support the things. 8-(

[Stewart Robert Hinsley]

In message , Andy Dingley writes

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None of the three British localities that I know have Paulownia specimens strikes me as particularly wet.

Paulownia seed is said to germinate "like cress", so 2,000 seeds is more than anyone not wanting to grow a plantation (is it any good for biomass for power generation?) needs. It doesn't display the weedy tendencies in the UK that it is said to do elsewhere.

I haven't seen it done, but one recommended usage is to stool the plant annually for use as a spot foliage plant.

[Andy Dingley]

They probably had soil though. This was a hilltop. It had the rain, it just couldn't retain any of it.

There's a couple of Paulownia in Westonbirt, which is on my doorstep. Those leaves are indeed spectacularly huge.