Yes interesting one I think i still have it growing
its z8 hardy maybe z7 but plants in cultivation maybe
all one clone.Also they like alot of moisture.

The bed on the left (south) side as you enter the Port of Edmonds marina area, near the railroad tracks (probably features a Port of Edmonds sign but I don't remember) has several of them. They look like they have been there at least a few years, as they are bigger than the one gallon pot sizes usually offered.

When I first noticed them last month there may have been a bit of tip damage.

Not longer ago the same planting area featured a grouping of Cordyline australis but these probably froze down at some point and were therefore removed, apparently.

bboy, that's what I noticed with mine.....many of the tips had what appeared to be cold damage. I just pruned them off....trust that is not a concern.

As wet as it has been here the last 5-6 months, I was wondering if the Australian native was just drowning :-) Seems like the persistent wet has damaged a lot of usually quite hardy plants.

I'll check out the Edmonds plants the next time I am over that way.

G'day from Tasmania,

It is unlikely that your Microcachrys (always referred to locally as creeping strawberry pine) is suffering from too much water and more likely to be the opposite as dryness is its enemy. This can show up as dying off of the tips as well as dying of the branches underneath. In the wild they grow in almost permanently moist to wet, shallow peaty soils and are subject to temperature as low as -12C and exposed to ice, snow and frost any time of the year but mainly during the winter months so they should be reasonably hardy. This is a stunning small conifer (especially when adorned in its bright red female "cones")which should be grown more widely but even here in its homeland it is not often seen in the garden.

Microcachrys growing on shallow moist peat in the wild (they love hugging the rocks)

The pictures show Microcachrys growing in almost constantly wet peat beside an alpine tarn

Microcachrys in cultivation on moist,fast draining slope

Well....it's certainly good to know that it will tolerate, even appreciate, moisture and/or wet conditions. But I hardly think excessive dryness has been a factor so far :-) It's been so wet here this winter and spring that at times I was sure we would all float away!

I'll keep that in mind for our typically much drier summer conditions, should they ever materialize this year :-)

D'oh! The Port of Edmonds planting is Diselma.

I just got one of these as well. Also, an Athrotaxis cupressoides I had in a pot for a long time seems to have just died. I'm not sure why.

I know, none of those facts is particularly exciting, but I thought I'd mention it.

Nice pics Mr. Tasmanii.

Oh I quite like this one!

One question:

Why belongs Diselma to Cupressaceae and the very similar Microcachrys to Podocarpaceae. I know Microcachrys has cones similar to Podocarpus. Is this the reason?

Thanks

Wolfgang