Re: lavender Q
- Subject: Re: lavender Q
- From: Chantal Guiraud c*@modulonet.fr
- Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 21:40:59 +0200
Filippi do have a web site : www.jardin-sec.com
Chantal
Montpellier, France
> De : "Richard La Rose Boudreaux" <richardlarose@arsystel.com>
> Répondre à : richardlarose@arsystel.com
> Date : Sun, 10 Apr 2005 11:23:31 +0200
> À : <jhead@headfamily.freeserve.co.uk>, <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
> Objet : Re: lavender Q
>
> One of the best sources of lavender that I know of is Pépinière Filippi
> which is located on the coast of France near Mèze. I don't think he has a
> website but his e-mail address is olivier.filippi@wanadoo.fr. He has 73
> different lavenders and lots of other Med climate plants listed in his 128
> page catalogue. Tel. 04-67-43-88-69. He's also a member of the MGS.
>
> Richard La Rose
> Els Lledoners de l'Empordà
> Girona
> España
>
> http://www.elslledoners.com
> Country Guest House / B&B
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <jhead@headfamily.freeserve.co.uk>
> To: <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 10:45 AM
> Subject: Re: lavender Q
>
>
>> On 4 Apr 2005 at 14:49, Nan Sterman wrote:
>>
>>> Which species/variety of lavender has green leaves rather than
>>> gray/green or silver?
>>>
>>> Nan
>>
>>
>> Nan
>> I've come in a little late on this topic, but would like to endorse what
>> has already been posted. Certainly L.viridis (native to Portugal and
>> SW Spain) is considered one of the greenest lavenders with regard to
>> foliage. It grows in the wild alongside the acid-loving L. stoechas
>> subspecies but I have certainly found it does well in cultivation in a
>> neutral medium. The apical bracts vary in colour from a very pale
>> creamy green to almost yellow - it is sometimes called the lemon
>> lavender for this reason, and I suspect because of the lemony scent to
>> the foliage.
>>
>> The other contender , as Jan suggested, would certainly be L.
>> canariensis. The variety found on Tenerife (ssp canariensis) is a bright
>> green, contrasting beautifully with its vivid blue flowers. In the wild,
>> you can see it from a long way off. This subsp seems to be the one
>> normally found in cultivation but if you are lucky enough to come
>> across the subsp from the more westerly islands, here the foliage is a
>> deeper colour, more of a pine green, and mostly lacking in the scent.
>> Beautiful flowerheads, though.
>>
>> I would agree with Sean that L. dentata var dentata is also in the
>> running for greenness of foliage and it is such a beautiful flower spike,
>> one of my favourites. There is a pink flowered version of this,
>> collected in the Anti Atlas in Morocco. I had a piece some years ago
>> from Tim Upson (Cambridge BG) and passed material on to
>> Downderry Nursery in Kent UK but the owner tells me it doesn't sell
>> very well. A pity, because it's a good pink and not muddy like some of
>> the pink-flowered angustifolias. There is also a white-flowered form
>> which I haven't seen but hope to come across in my lavender
>> wanderings one day. (I have the white flowered cultivar of var
>> candicans cllaed 'Pure Harmony' which I believe is more widely
>> available now).
>>
>> Joan
>> Editor, The Lavender Bag
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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