Re: Medit Garden Ideas
- To: , "Medit- Plants"
- Subject: Re: Medit Garden Ideas
- From: J*
- Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 17:40:58 -0800
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From: sluggo <sluggo@sirius.com>
To: Medit- Plants <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Date: Sunday, December 05, 1999 7:44 PM
Subject: Medit Garden Ideas
>... And if you have any suggestions
>for ecologically appropriate and/or aesthetically striking plant
>combinations for each of these regions, that would be even better!
>
>
One striking combination from the foothills of the northern Sacramento
Valley includes Ceanothus lemmonii (intense blue flowers on a low evergreen
shrub); Dendromecon rigida (yellow-flowered bush poppy with glaucous
leaves); Arctostaphylos viscida (whiteleaf manzanita) and Clematis lasiantha
(white-flowered, scrambling up the other shrubs). Mix in some canyon live
oak (Quercus chrysolepis) and gray pine (Pinus sabiniana), toyon
(Heteromeles arbutifolia) and storax (Styrax officinalis). Add some native
perennials--bright pink Phlox speciosa, ferny Dicentra formosa, Lupinus
andersonii, Solidago californica, Dodecatheon hendersonii, Iris tenuissima.
Leave out the poison-oak, or put it safely off the path? It could be great!
Oh, how could I forget!! California buckeye, Aesculus californica and
redbud, Cercis occidentalis. What a bonehead I am. Those are essential
shrub/trees in a California foothill assemblage.
Would be great to include native geophytes e.g. Dichelostemma ida-maia, D.
capitatum, D. multiflorum, Calochortus tolmiei; and grasses such as Bromus
carinatus & Elymus glaucus.
