Propagation: eucalyptus, 1 by hcmcdole

hcmcdole wrote:
Very fast grower. I had a couple of trees that were about 15 to 20 foot tall in 3 to 4 years. Surprisingly hardy until an ice storm hit - then it looks terrible for quite a while because the burned leaves did not drop even after new leaves came out. I finally cut them down because of their fast growth.

If you stool them each year, then they usually will sucker back out. If you let them grow to become a tree and then cut them, it seems like you kill them for good. Maybe you can contain them (you probably would have to in your zone) and bring them indoors for winter.

Here is one of them (left of the Japanese maple). It actually put on more girth the next year before I cut it down.