Re: MEDIT-PLANTS digest 2092
- Subject: Re: MEDIT-PLANTS digest 2092
- From: d* f*
- Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 13:38:30 -0800 (PST)
Several people wrote with some good suggestions for
your dry bank, but it is always surprising to hear
things being recommended for no irrigation areas which
would perish in the same situation here. Or maybe I
misunderstood and gardeners don't manage to get
Agapanthus and Myoporum parvifolium to survive a
summer without any irrigation. Even in relatively
cool summer Berkeley here in the San Francisco Bay
Area, neither will survive a summer without
supplemental water. Our five to 6 month long dry
season is tough on many herbaceous drought tolerant
plants from other mediterranean climate zones.
The mention of Zauschneria/Epilobium californica is
one that does thrive here even without supplemental
summer water. If you shy away from the more strident
scarlet flowers of most forms, there is also a lovely
soft pink form called 'Solidarity Pink', as well as
other cultivars grown as much for the silvery foliage
as their late summer/fall bloom.
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