Hi all! Someone is asking me about their indoor larch. I'm
suspecting it's really a pseudolarix, because I don't think you can
keep a larch inside, but this person has kept his "larch" indoors for
6 years. Does anyone have experience with an indoor
larch/Pseudolarix, who wouldn't mind talking to this person? I can't
help him: my larches and pseudolarches are outdoors.
--
Nina Shishkoff

Frederick, MD

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Someone is asking me about their indoor larch. I'm suspecting it's really
a pseudolarix, because I don't think you can keep a larch inside, but this
person has kept his "larch" indoors for 6 years. BRBR

Pseudolarix amabilis is an outdoor tree. If this person has something
resembling a larch which has survived indoors for six years, it is probably a
Podocarpus. A search on the Web will yield pictures and plenty of information.
Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming
train."
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)

Someone is asking me about their indoor larch. I'm suspecting it's really
a pseudolarix, because I don't think you can keep a larch inside, but this
person has kept his "larch" indoors for 6 years. BRBR

Pseudolarix amabilis is an outdoor tree. If this person has something
resembling a larch which has survived indoors for six years, it is probably a
Podocarpus. A search on the Web will yield pictures and plenty of information.
Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming
train."
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)

I agree with Carl. Our eastern larch will not survive very far south of its
natural range even outdoors. Unless the persons home freezes at night!
The Pseudolarix survives in southern China so it perhaps could make it
indoors. But I have no experience with it indoors.
Jerry Meislik
Whitefish Montana USA
Zone 4-5
http://www.bonsaihunk.8m.com/
Nina Shishkoff wrote:

Hi all! Someone is asking me about their indoor larch. I'm
suspecting it's really a pseudolarix, because I don't think you can
keep a larch inside, but this person has kept his "larch" indoors for
6 years. Does anyone have experience with an indoor
larch/Pseudolarix, who wouldn't mind talking to this person? I can't
help him: my larches and pseudolarches are outdoors.
--
Nina Shishkoff

Frederick, MD


As the proud owner of two collected larches from Maine, I can honestly say if
I
kept these bad boys indoors for a single winter they'd be firewood. Must be
something else.

I don't have any experience with Pseudolarix.

Craig Cowing
NY

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Someone is asking me about their indoor larch. I'm
suspecting it's really
a pseudolarix, because I don't think you can keep a larch
inside, but this
person has kept his "larch" indoors for 6 years. BRBR

Pseudolarix amabilis is an outdoor tree. If this person has
something
resembling a larch which has survived indoors for six years, it
is probably a
Podocarpus.

And I'd hate like the dickens to try to keep a Podocarpus inside
for that long, too.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Who thinks a
lively imagination would be needed to see any similarity between
a larch and a Podocarpus.

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Someone is asking me about their indoor larch. I'm
suspecting it's really
a pseudolarix, because I don't think you can keep a larch
inside, but this
person has kept his "larch" indoors for 6 years. BRBR

Pseudolarix amabilis is an outdoor tree. If this person has
something
resembling a larch which has survived indoors for six years, it
is probably a
Podocarpus.

And I'd hate like the dickens to try to keep a Podocarpus inside
for that long, too.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Who thinks a
lively imagination would be needed to see any similarity between
a larch and a Podocarpus.

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Someone is asking me about their indoor larch. I'm suspecting it's really
a pseudolarix, because I don't think you can keep a larch inside, but this
person has kept his "larch" indoors for 6 years. BRBR

Pseudolarix amabilis is an outdoor tree. If this person has something
resembling a larch which has survived indoors for six years, it is probably a
Podocarpus. A search on the Web will yield pictures and plenty of information.
Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming
train."
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)

See, Lesneiwicz's book (sic) lists pseudolarix as an indoor tree. I
*have* a pseudolarix, and I wouldn't keep it indoors on a bet, but
perhaps, as with junipers, once in a while someone succeeds in
keeping one indoors.

I have often wondered, looking as Leczneiwitz's book (sic) and its
bizarre assortment of "indoor" bonsai, whether Europeans rely less on
central heating and air-conditioning in their homes. The average
American home is dark and dry, not conducive to plants.

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From: Nina Shishkoff
Subject: [IBC] indoor larch (?) question

I have often wondered, looking as Leczneiwitz's book (sic) and its
bizarre assortment of "indoor" bonsai, whether Europeans rely less on
central heating and air-conditioning in their homes. The average
American home is dark and dry, not conducive to plants.


Hy

i can assure you that we do rely a lot on central heating, but not so much
on air-conditioning, at least here in Switzerland.

and it's hard to keep "indoor" plants alive in winter (besides Ficus).

BUT fortunately, i can use a wintergarten? (non heatet glass house attached
to the house) for my "indoor" plants during winter, that's much better :-)

Jürg

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From: Nina Shishkoff
Subject: [IBC] indoor larch (?) question

I have often wondered, looking as Leczneiwitz's book (sic) and its
bizarre assortment of "indoor" bonsai, whether Europeans rely less on
central heating and air-conditioning in their homes. The average
American home is dark and dry, not conducive to plants.


Hy

i can assure you that we do rely a lot on central heating, but not so much
on air-conditioning, at least here in Switzerland.

and it's hard to keep "indoor" plants alive in winter (besides Ficus).

BUT fortunately, i can use a wintergarten? (non heatet glass house attached
to the house) for my "indoor" plants during winter, that's much better :-)

Jürg

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I believe the correct spelling is Lesniewicz.
Very few people are aware that Lesniewicz was a businessman, not a bonsai
grower, and his book was actually ghostwritten by several assistants. The
sections on individual species are sometimes helpful, but the chapter on general
cultural instructions is full of errors.
You are right that much of the information on indoor climates in Europe is
not applicable to the US, especially the Northeast. However, remember that
Lesniewicz advises the reader to grow subtropicals and half-hardy species in what
he calls a "winter garden," which in this country would be an unheated or
slightly heated conservatory, sunporch, or atrium, quite suited to temperate
species which are not hardy outdoors. Pseudolarix might do very well there. What
zone is it supposed to be hardy to?
Iris

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Nina Shishkoff wrote:

Hi all! Someone is asking me about their indoor larch. I'm
suspecting it's really a pseudolarix, because I don't think you can
keep a larch inside, but this person has kept his "larch" indoors for
6 years. Does anyone have experience with an indoor
larch/Pseudolarix, who wouldn't mind talking to this person? I can't
help him: my larches and pseudolarches are outdoors.
--
Nina Shishkoff

Frederick, MD


As the proud owner of two collected larches from Maine, I can honestly say if I
kept these bad boys indoors for a single winter they'd be firewood. Must be
something else.

I don't have any experience with Pseudolarix.

Craig Cowing
NY
Zone 5b/6a Sunset 37

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