Re: Drought survivors and worms.

In a message dated 14/12/00 01:32:33 GMT Standard Time, 
sean.ohara@groupmail.com writes:

<< sean.ohara@groupmail.com >>
Subj:    Re: Drought survivors-

At 11:54 AM 11/13/00 -0500, Gemcopley@cs.com wrote:
>about plants which survived months on end without watering ; I would be
>really interested to have the Latin names, except for the roses, as some of
>your local ones mean nothing to me here in S. France. Thanks. Jennifer.

Thank you Nan,Sean and Lauw for your helpful information. I have noted the 
sources for drought resistant plants.  For years now I have been lucky enough 
to live next to one of the most interesting plantsmen in this area, Dino 
Pelizzzaro. He and his wife have been most welcoming and allowed me to lurk 
in the glass houses to paint rare beauties.
As of tomorrow I move from my wonderful but demanding garden, and will for 
the time being take my pleasures vicariously through all these interesting 
postings.
The real purpose of my posting above, [which I tried to wrap up so as not to 
appear elitiste, ]was to encourage the use of  Latin, rather than local 
names, so we may all, wherever we are, enjoy and identify the plants under 
discussion.
On another subject entirely, at dinner the other night with a bunch of local 
Med gardening friends we were discussing worms, the garden sort. One of the 
group is cultivating them as they are quite a rarity here. [She cannot 
remember the Latin names : )  ] but says there are 2 varieties,both 
Australian] She wondered  whether it matters what you feed them. What might 
the optimum diet be ? For instance she minces up old tea bags, and her 
husband thought this was an unecessary courtesy. It seems they relished an 
old unminced T shirt , except for the nylon thread, although it took them a 
while to devour it. As one of the comments made that evening was that 
gardeners have done more to destroy the environment than commercial farmers, 
I wonder whether introducing these foreign worms is to be recommended ? Is 
there a worm expert out there please,to help answer these 
peripheral-to-Medit-gardening questions?
TIA
Jennifer
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