Re: CULT: Companion plants
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- Subject: Re: CULT: Companion plants
- From: "* C* F* <d*@cts.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 13:26:53 -0600 (MDT)
At 10:23 AM 5/14/97 -0600, you wrote:
>> In selecting annuals, again be careful of any that produce smothering
>> foliage or self-seed so as to become weedy.
Amy, I'm afraid that the variety of nicotiana that I was advised to plant is
well on the way to smothering the neighboring iris with it's large leaves.
I had never really noticed nicotiana in the past, so wasn't aware that this
had such large leaves. The blossom stalks are slender and tall, but the
blossoms very small. I don't like it because of the above facts and will
probably pull it out. There are plenty of California Poppies in the rest of
my yard where they are along the rocky streambed (dry, of course, in the
summer) among the other natives, and also prolific in the 50'x83'
'wildflower meadow' planted at the rear of my lot behind a grapestake fence
so I can let it go dry in summer.
I could go on at length about my meadow and the native plants, but after all
this is an iris group! (Does anyone know of a similar group on CA natives?
If so, please e-mail me.)
Dorothy C. Frisbie
Woman of Many Interests
Escondido, CA
AIS Region 15, Sunset Zone 20/21
