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Summer planting
Contrary to popular opinion, summer planting is fine as long as adequate water is provided throughout any prolonged dry periods. This allows you to take advantage of increased summer growth.
Prumnopitys taxifolia
Height: 8m;  Spread: 6m
Matai (Tree)
Interlacing juvenile form transforms into a slow growing feathery specimen tree.
» Click here for our Prumnopitys ferruginea article published in The Fringe, November 2016 ...
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Juvenile tree.
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