From: caterpillar@amuscaria.invalid
Jaques d'Alltrades wrote on Thursday 10 Jul
2008 4:53 pm:
> The message
> from Frederick Burroughs contains these words:
>
>> Most are with oak, as I live in an
>> oak-hickory forest.
>
> Hmmm.
>
> Would hickory grow in the UK I wonder? Are hickory nuts edible? Any good
> (at all/for anything else?)
>
> Summers in this area temperate, quite dry (usually) but rarely parched.
> Winters mild, and temperatures often don't drop much below zeroșC and
> seldom below -5șC
>
Hickory does grow in the UK but probably not in the
wild. For example Wakehurst Place in Sussex (run by
Kew Gardens) has a few specimens, but the authorities
will come down on you with a ton of home grown
compost if they catch you interfering with any plants.
They're not too keen on mushroom gatherers either,
although there are quite a lot of interesting ones.
I don't know which species of hickory are featured.
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