Eucalyptus pauciflora subsp. pauciflora ‘Adaminiby’ – White Sallee Snow Gum
How to use in the landscape and/or garden: How to grow or train it to get the best out of it
An easy-going species of snow gum, this Eucalypt can tolerate soils that are marginally less free draining that the other sub-species. Tolerant of salt laden winds and exposed locations, once established
A beautiful ornamental tree with bags of attitude, huge juvenile leaves, gorgeous bark and amazing style. Grows into a fabulous medium sized Eucalyptus specimen tree.
Fabulous Specimen Tree for the wider landscape, arboretum collection or avenue planting and for the medium and larger garden. If you like this tree but seek something slightly smaller in stature, check out its cousins E. debeuzevillei and E. pauciflora subsp. pauciflora Mt Buffalo
Commercially: good in open public spaces, university campus, parks, business parks.
Growing a full-sized standard: planting the tree and running away is an option, but it won’t necessarily give you the best results.
We suggest you maintain a leading shoot and tip prune the lateral shoots to encourage bushiness. Keep all the sides shoots until the tree turns them brown and sticky (like a stick), because they are feeding into and building up the strength of the main trunk.
- To grow a large specimen, leave the tree to grow up naturally thereafter.
- For a smaller tree, tip prune the leader when it reaches around 1.2-1.5m, thereafter let the head develop. Then prune the tree every March 18th and again at the end of May to keep your tree smaller and bushy.
For more, see our guidance notes for growing specimen Eucalyptus in our Help and Advice section.
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Growing shrub-on-a-stick clipped standard: this is an opportunity to grow a Eucalyptus in a confined space like a courtyard and also control its overall size. You can produce a smaller tree on a trunk with a height of anywhere between 2.4m (8ft) and 4m (12ft). Prune back growth every March 18th or thereabouts. Then tip prune the annual growth back by up to 90% at the end of May. Light tip pruning can be done again during July, but no later. Don’t prune from mid-August through to February.
Training: We recommend you nip out the top 1cm of the growing shoot and side shoots of a young tree at around 1.5m tall to encourage the development of the crown. Further nip out the ends of the shoot tips subsequently produced to make it more bushy. This is better for the roots and long term, produces a firm stable tree. Timing: prune around end March-beginning of April. March 18th is National Eucalyptus Day – see our blog post. Reduce fresh spring growth by up to 50% during the 1st week of June; we find snow gums respond very well to this form of pruning.
REMEMBER: No grass, no weeds and a thick boring bark chip mulch, to a depth of 150 mm (6 inches) are essential to assist with good establishment. Our research trials have demonstrated that grass around the trunk of Eucalyptus prevent the trees from quickly establishing and can completely stop them from growing.
Hedge-Screens: Eucalyptus pauciflora subsp. pauciflora ‘Adaminiby’ is not on our selected species list for hedge-screens and windbreaks
Floral Art: Eucalyptus pauciflora subsp. pauciflora ‘Adaminiby’ is an interesting species for cut foliage as it ripens its wood and lays down fibre quite early and can be harvested in August, and in a good year, possibly July. It lengthens the season of availability for cut foliage production.
Firewood Production: Eucalyptus pauciflora subsp. pauciflora ‘Adaminiby’ is not on our selected species list for Biomass or Firewood – not sufficiently productive.
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Do give us a call on our nursery mobile 07307 413 052 if you would like to discuss growing firewood with one of our consultants
Ecology:
- All Eucalyptus produce flowers with nectar and pollen, but this species has useful flowers providing foraging for honey-bees and other pollinating insects. Snow gums are notably prolific in flowering and bees love’em
Environmental:
- Growing on the Coast Snow gums have extra-thick leaf cuticles, which make them extremely tolerant of cold exposed conditions and salt laden winds, once mature in the ground. To make this work, we recommend that:
- you plant a smaller specimen (around 1.2+m tall),
- encourage fast establishment in a deeply prepared planting pit (follow our planting advice), to encourage deep rooting to grow an upright, stable tree.
- Staking will be required.
- Newly planted trees will very likely require a wind break shelter for their first winter in the ground with you.
- Zero grass or weeds during the period of establishment is non-negotiable!
- Tolerant of cold and exposed growing environments inland Eucalyptus pauciflora subsp. pauciflora ‘Adaminiby’ will grow in open fields and pasture, once established.
We recommend
- you plant a smaller specimen (less than 1.8m tall in a 3 or 5 litre air-pot)
- encourage fast establishment in a deeply prepared planting pit (follow our planting advice), to encourage deep rooting to grow an upright, stable tree
- Staking will be required
- In exposed locations, newly planted trees will very likely require a wind break shelter made from horticultural fleece or sail cloth, for their first winter in the ground with you; this very much depends on the level of exposure
- Zero grass or weeds during the period of establishment is non-negotiable!
- Tolerant of poor stony soils once established Eucalyptus pauciflora subsp. pauciflora ‘Adaminiby’ does not require a rich soil and can survive in poor, stony soils. Tolerant of arid environments, poor stony dry soils once established. It is essential that your Euc. is given our recommended quantity of water for its first 2 growing seasons in your grounds, during its establishment phase before you abandon it to its fate. The tree needs to establish a good, deep root system before it can survive in dry, challenging conditions. No grass, no weeds and a thick bark chip mulch, to a depth of 150 mm (6 inches) are essential to assist with good establishment. Growth on impoverished soils will always be reduced.
