"Subshrub"
- Subject: "Subshrub"
- From: J* S*
- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 16:19:47 -0700 (PDT)
In my last post, I was made to realilze that I used a
term with which many gardeners aren't familiar.
It's "subshrub".
I'm sure it's not a botanical appropriate term but
it's a term I found probably coined by an old
horticulturist whose name I can't remember.
It was his way of distinquishing those mostly smaller
plants which develop a somewhat woody base for us here
in California but not for those in more northerly
climes.
For example, Leonotis, most Lavandula, Cuphea, etc.
Others may call the smaller of these "shrublets".
Has anyone else bumped into this and can add to the
philosophical connotation?
Joe
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Joe Seals
Santa Maria, California --
where the weather is always perfect
and my garden always has something blooming
and birds galore
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