Posted by Gus on 6/2/2008, 9:28 pm, in reply to "Eucalyptus niphophila"
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No one raising 30 eucalypt types & keeping track of their performance as you did as a "newby" anymore, I think 
By growing and observing them you always learn a lot!
I do not know of a similar experiment for SC with such a variety of them (a bit more to the North Mr. Gillespie at Windmill has tested an amazing variety of them in VA along the years, for which he deserves proper acknowledgement too, and kudos from every eucalypt grower!), so somehow you are pioneering for your area, and you produce the answers to your questions
If E. niphophila works there, then it works, and what we can say about it does not matter too much! Yours is a different climate to the ones more common for euc cultivation overseas. It maybe is just a bit soon to know about E. niphophila without field trials, but certainly your preliminary results (for this and other species) are something promising.
I think the basic thought is "not getting mad for those species which do not make it" in your conditions, but "being happy for those species that make it" No matter at which stage of growing. And a good handful of the ones you have trialled should make you happy by now. I would be
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