Monkey Puzzle Tree (Araucaria araucana) Reviews

Messy tree. Saw my first one in mid 80's when I moved to the Pacific NW and was mistified. Someone else wrote "exotic" and that's what I've thought too...until recently. A few yrs back I purchased an old house on large lot w/ mature landscaping and on this property is such a tree & it's huge! (60ft?) I finally had an oportunity to ...  Read the complete review

I have just returned from Lanzarote and was admiring the trees there, so I bought a seed and brought it back. I found this while looking for info on growing the trees, so thanks for the info - wish me luck!

The first memory I had of Monkey Puzzle trees was as a toddler, playing beside one in my great-grandmother's front garden in the heart of Edinburgh. Looking back, it was an incredibly strange place to find a Monkey Puzzle tree - an exotic, orphaned misfit amidst a row of run-down terraced houses and melodious rose gardens. Unfortunately ...  Read the complete review