Re: flowers in hot season
- Subject: Re: flowers in hot season
- From: david feix d*@yahoo.com
- Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 08:26:47 -0700 (PDT)
We don't have this problem in cool maritime Berkeley,
California, where summer temps remain spring-like in
comparison with inland areas; but some things come to
mind that thrived in the almost 50C summer temps of
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for summer into late fall bloom:
(Everything received regular water, as almost nothing
native survived these extremes without some
supplemental irrigation in the 1 meter depth of sand
over limestone rock which was the typical planting
condition at the project I was working on there).
In no particular order:
Verbena bonariensis, V. rigida, V. tenuisecta, V.
hybrida
Cereus peruviana
Tecoma stans and cultivars
T. x smithii
Tecomaria capensis
Heperaloe species
Cordia species
Chilopsis linearis
Parkinsonia aculeata
Lantana camara
Cercidium species
Clerodendron ugandense and C. myricoides
Dalea species
Leucophyllum species
Grevillea species
Banksia species
Callistemon species
Mirabilis species
Zinnia species
some Cassia species
Muhlenbergia capillaris
Caesalpinia species
Carissa edulis
Vines/Espaliered shrubs:
Antigonon leptotus
Mandevilla laxa
Mandevilla x 'Alice DuPont'
Dalechampia dioscoreifolia
Distictis buccinatoria
Grewia caffra
Macfadyena unguis-cati
Podranea ricosaliana
Senecio confusus
Thunbergia species
Milletia reticulata
Combretum fruticosum
Petrea volubis
Datura metel and species
Ruellia brittoniana and R. peninsularis
Justicia spicigera and J. californica
Plumbago capensis
Teucrium fruticans
Lycianthes rantonnetii
Plumeria rubra and P. acutifolia
Tagetes lemmonii and T. lucida
Portulaca grandiflora
Vitex agnus-castus
There is also alot of potential in using foliage color
from the various Agaves, Aloes, Sedums, Senecios in a
hot/dry summer climate garden, which can provide color
equal to flowers, and not show the same wilting stress
that flowers would if water supplies are limited.
Providing light shade using trees such as
Parkinsonia/Chilopsis/Cercidiums/x Chitalpa
tashkentensis can help greatly in growing of
succulents in very hot locations. Our native Aesculus
californica is also useful in hot areas; and if you
don't mind the mid summer leaf drop, it is a very
beautiful sculptural accent for a mediterranean
garden.
I would look to desert climate plant palettes or also
hot tropical climates for other suitable plants,
depending on whether you want to water in summer,
and/or have warm enough winters to grow things like
Plumeria, Papyrus, Heliconia psittacorum, etc.
Long hot summers don't have to be without color...
David Feix
Berkeley, California, and off to Capetown, South
Africa for the spring wildflowers next week...
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> >From: mediterranean climate gardening e-mail forum
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> >To: mediterranean climate gardening e-mail forum
> for gardeners in these
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> >Subject: MEDIT-PLANTS digest 2296
> >Date: Tue, Aug 6, 2002, 12:20 AM
> >
>
> > Also: what are the best plants for the really hot
> season (I can water)? I
> > want something that will flower in July and August
> when nearly everything
> > else is withered. Apart from the very usual ones,
> I mean, like oleander,
> > bougainvillea and such.
>
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