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Re: Ceanothus & Cistus

At 10:47 AM 4/29/98 PDT, Jackie Doda wrote:
>       <snip>                           Pruning into the woody
>portion of the branch can cause it to die back to its base. Because
>of this characteristic, ceonothos should always be planted where
>there will be enough room for it to reach its mature size.  I've
>heard that the same is true for cistus, but I don't know that for
>sure.  Probably, others on the list have had experience with them
>though.

I had thought this true of Cistus as well, but I recently had to
prune some specimens back very hard (really not planted in the
right place, but the client would like to 'manage' them in situ).
I thought they might die out and we'd plant something else, but
they responded with lots of new growth, larger leaves, and lots
of flowers now.  My mental image of how these plants should be
managed is changing!  The species is unknown to me (I'm still
learning these), but the leaves were light grey green and the
flowers intense magenta pink.


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