Re: Medit Garden Ideas
- To: sluggo
- Subject: Re: Medit Garden Ideas
- From: W* B*
- Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 08:07:56 -0800 (PST)
Dear Ernie,
What fun, this planning for the future!
It couldn't be in better hands!
With Best Wishes,
Elly Bade
Berkeley, Calif.
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, sluggo wrote:
> Dear Medit Plant folks,
> You haven't heard from me & Cabrillo College (near Santa Cruz) in awhile
> so I think its time to bring you up-to-date as to what is happening.
> Cabrillo, a community College located on the central coast of California,
> where I work as Garden Manager for the Horticulture Department, is moving
> its entire horticultural facilities ie., greenhouses, nursery,
> classrooms, gardens, Salvia collection (around 200) etc., in the year
> 2001 to a new site on a yet to be developed portion of the campus.
> Instead of a crowded 1.5 acres we will 8+ flat acres to develop and
> several more adjacent acres of sloping native landscapes. Funding comes
> from a 1998 local college bond issue, state educational monies and other
> monies, and will enable us to developing the new site which includes
> utilities, roads, parking lots, cyclone fences, buildings, greenhouses,
> gardens, etc. The new facility will include a auditorium for lectures,
> symposiums, evening meetings and more. When all is finished (is a garden
> ever finished?) we should have one of the best and up-to-date educational
> hort facilities on the west coast.
>
> Moving the gardens will set us back plant wise for a year or so but when
> our plants are established and growing we will be able to expand our
> plant collections and interpretation. At the new site we will have
> gardens featuring the Medit Climate regions of the world including the
> Medit Sea, Chile, Australia, South Africa and of course the California
> Floristic Province including parts of political California and Mexico.
> Salvias and the Lamiaceae Family, which are one of the main specialities
> in our collections will be displayed both in the Medit regions gardens
> and other geographic origin gardens. There will also be some theme
> gardens and a collection of vines along a 3,000 ft. cyclone fence. Our
> native plant collection will include all commerically available local
> natives and native cultivars from our Monterey Bay area.
>
> Gardens never have enough space or resources to maintain their
> collections. What I need from all of you is plant nominations for each of
> the Medit region gardens. I would love to hear your top 10, 20 , 30 or
> more plants from each of the geographic regions ie., Medit Sea, Chile,
> Australia, South Africa and California. 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! We
> want our gardens to include a mix of good old reliable garden plants and
> new exciting additions. Most of our current plants are perennials and
> woody shrubs but our new gardens should include all types of plants from
> annuals to bulbs to trees and vines. These gardens will be visited and
> enjoyed by horticulture classes, gardening groups and the visiting
> public.
>
> I look forward to your ideas and being able to show fellow Medit-Plant
> enthusiasts our new gardens as they develop.
> This is your chance to help us develop an exciting collection of
> Mediterranean plants.
>
> Sincerely,
> Ernie Wasson
> Garden Manager
> Cabrillo College
> Aptos, California
>
>
>
> Sunset Zone 17, USDA Zone 10
> within sight of the Pacific Ocean
> overlooking Monterey Bay, California
>
>
