Eucalyptus Planted - Silver Dollar and Baby Blue Bouquet - June 2026
I have planted up a number of various sizes and a couple of types of eucalyptus in a couple of settings to try to grow as cut-flower accent plants. First up is Silver Dollar Eucalyptus. I bought three pint-sized plants from the nursery on the IL/Wisconsin stateline back on Memorial Day weekend. I have put them in three different spots to see how they do: First is in the raised bed on our patio with our tomatoes. This is in mushroom compost: The other two pint-sized eucalyptus went in the ground. First up is adjacent to the pizza oven bed. This gets some good sun and I planted it with municipal biosolids: The last one (of these three) is in the corner patio bed. This went in with the native soil/loam. I also previously bought six Silver Dollar plugs from Garden Club. Those arrived back in early April and I up-potted them into small pots. As soon as I could (with the last frost), I moved them outside and put six in one of the Greensta...