RE: Oleander Hardiness
- Subject: RE: Oleander Hardiness
- From: "Anthony Lyman-Dixon" L*@lyman-dixon.freeserve.co.uk
- Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:34:51 +0100
- Importance: Normal
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I am not sure how relevant this is but I
collected my Oleander seed from Paziols (Aude) football pitch which is quite
incredibly cold in winter and from where the flood waters washed my daughter’s
car somewhere in the direction of the Mediterranean a few years ago. This year
one of the baby Oleanders flowered for the first time. Dioscorides wrote that
they liked growing along stream sides and whilst his identifications are
sometimes dubious, in this case he is corroborated by Baumann in “Greek
Wild Flowers” I have long
suspected that mine is a wild (or wilder) form compared with the flamboyant specimens
provided by up-market Provencal garden centres for the villa gardens of the rich
and famous, certainly both Paziols
and my Bristolian hillside are generally colder and wetter than the coast
around Nice. Someone asked how us Brits were getting on
with the sustained cold last winter. I remember replying OK, before I realised
that the Winter had barely started and we had months of it to go. In fact even
the outdoor pomegranates, Vitex and myrtle survived. It was the drought Tim
refers to, that zapped us. Anthony -----Original Message----- Except, that is - sod's law - for this year, when if I'd kept my
oleanders I might have done much better with them, since in common
with most of the UK we had a two-month-long completely rain-free
period during which temperatures were consistently in the high 20s
and often nudging into the low 30s. Enough to satisfy even an oleander,
surely... Tim Longville -- -- |
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