Re: Back_here,_at_40°C
- Subject: Re: Back_here,_at_40°C
- From: J* D*
- Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 08:32:08 -0700 (PDT)
Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, we've had an
string of at least three weeks of foggy nights,
overcast mornings, and cool days - a July pattern that
may be typical but always feels a bit gloomy. Of
course, without it, our redwoods wouldn't survive
until the next rainy season. We take whatever chance
we can get to escape to warmer zones, some a half an
hour drive inland, or up a mountain, above the chilly
marine layer.
--- "Vinciguerra, Alessandra"
<A.Vinciguerra@aarome.org> wrote:
> Hi to everybody,
> my name was somehow "forgotten" by the server and I
> was without any message
> from the list for quite a while. I missed it, but it
> took me some time to
> realize that you could not possibly be all out there
> gardening. So I asked
> for good Sean's help, and here I am, back again. In
> the meanwhile I've been
> doing lots of gardening, following the various
> threads that cross my life...
> for instance, yesterday I ordered about 60 scented
> orchids, for a garden I
> am consultant of, and now I am about to order
> ca.100 rose bushes for La
> Landriana garden. In the latter we are currently
> revising the Olive
> garden, a hedged in, formally designed area
> sorrounded by olive trees. The
> olive garden is based on a very strict color scheme:
> glaucous, grey and
> chartreuse foliaged (artemiasias, salvias,
> noticeably officinalis,
> o.icterina and interrupta), purple and lemon-yellow
> flowered (alchemillas,
> potentillas) plants. I must commend Plectranthus
> tomentosum (Vicks plant)
> for its performance here: not only it has bravely
> covered all the ground it
> was assigned, it keeps blooming constantly, and
> survives with not that much
> water, creating a lovely background for taller
> plants. I wouls also like to
> recommend the mix of Helycrisium petiolaris
> "Limelight" and Verbena
> bonariensis, and mention Ipomoea batatas "Margarita"
> and Salvia verticillata
> "Purple rain" as wonderful combinations in this
> range of colors. Very
> refreshing in the heath.
> Actually, the main issue this time of the year is
> the incredible heatwave.
> Rome is taken by a grip of hot days, people faint
> during the Pope's
> audiences, to our unconfessed joy, >:), tourists
> get fined because they
> dive in the monumental fountains, and we MUST
> irrigate, at least enough to
> keep things going. Only at night we can hope to get
> some breeze.
> What is happening in the rest of the world, outside
> of the Mediterranean?
> Cheers,
> Alessandra
>
> Alessandra Vinciguerra
> Superintendent of the Gardens
> American Academy in Rome
> Via Masina,5
> 00183 Roma Italy
> Tel. 39-6-5846444
>
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