Lemon Eucalyptus oil is great bug repellent! I use it when i'm out in the woods to keep the mosquitoes at bay. My mom used to rub the leaves on our necks when we were kids! And yes, that is cool bark.

Sadi,
They have the Lemon Eucalyptus starter tree for sale on eBay from a Florida Nursery called Wellspring100.
I have bought lots of starter plants from them and was always pleased with what they sent.

If you are interested, type this number in the eBay search and Lemon Eucalyptus will show up. 130503538850

This is a picture of how they pack and ship the plants through the post office when the box was cut open.

The picture is of fig tree starter plants they sent.
Lou

I want rainbow eucalyptus. Once you look it up I bet you want one too. :-)

thanks lou, will definitley do...this tree grew straight up 30 or more foot in a matter of a couple years. i hear it has been added to the gov. things for skeeters...with deet. thanks again, i'm worried i'll lose this tree and not be able to replace it.

just ordered 10 more...thanks

>I want rainbow eucalyptus. Once you look it up I bet you want one too. :-)

I'll say! What a gorgeous tree. Does anyone have one in S FL?

I'd like to know the answer to that question too. I have found rainbow eucalyptus for sale in Florida, but at $250.00. I am very hesitant to buy unless it will survive in my area.

Here's mine.

Hey... I don't have a pic but I got a rainbow at the Greenthumb Festival in St. Pete last year. I believe it was from the guys at Crowley's down in Sarasota. I paid either $40-45. It was about 6 feet tall and now is easily 12 feet. Only about 1-1/2" in diameter and mostly green with some old brown bark peeling off. Not much color yet but in a few years I'll bet people stop focusing on the banyan tree in my backyard ;) I saw one down at Fairchild gardens and had to have one!

I'm pretty sure Greenthumb festival is coming up real soon. Maybe not this weekend but next?

I found the rainbow eucalyptus for 13.50 on this site. I checked on the DG watchdog site and this company doesn't seem to have any negatives. I swear I saw them on the wellpspring100 ebay seller's store before they just don't have them listed right now. Thier inventory changes as they sell stuff and get new stuff in so you might inquire there as well.

Here is a link that might be useful: rainbow ecalyptus

thanks lou, just paid and the trees are on there way....! mark

Wallisadi,

Happy to have helped you find them. But It cost me... while I was on that site I ended up buying more plants. LOL

Lou

I love my lemon eucalyptus tree but I can't say that it makes any kind of dent whatsoever in the mosquito population. My husband hates it b/c it is one messy tree between it shedding it's bark and the little filaments that fly off the blossoms. Are the rainbow eucylptus as messy?

We have to buy eucalyptus 'browse' to feed our koalas, one we can't use is the 'Rainbow' however the nursery we use is in Boynton, (Koalabrowseinc.com) they ship eucalyptus all across the USA for Koalas in zoos, but they do have alot of trees, they may be willing to sell cheap, we went recently and cut down 3 huge 'Rainbows' to use as perching for bird and primates.
Katie

Wallisadi,
WOW! They are looking great and really growing! They send out some really strong growing plants. I bought some Muscadine grapevines from them a couple months ago and they are now taller than I am, and you know how small the plants are when they arrive. I'm impressed with that nursery.

I'm glad I was able to help you find them.
Lou