Re: Carpenteria, also flannel bush
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- Subject: Re: Carpenteria, also flannel bush
- From: J*
- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 05:22:15 -0800
Well rats--I bought a nice looking carpenteria at the local native plant
soc. sale this fall and planted it without much thought. Now I know it's
finicky I will be fretting over it.
On another note, can anyone suggest ways to revive a depauperate
flannel-bush (Fremontodendron californicum)? I planted it 8 years ago in
unamended nutrient-poor clay soil. It still flowers, but each year has
fewer, smaller leaves and fewer flowers; and it hasn't grown for the last
several years. It gets watered a couple times in summer, not fertilized;
growing in part shade of Quercus douglasii.
-----Original Message-----
From: William A. Grant <grant@cruzio.com>
To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Date: Monday, December 13, 1999 8:55 PM
Subject: Carpenteria
>Sluggo is right! I have gone through 3 of them in my garden in the last 35
>years. They are not here forever. Once they start looking sickly, get a new
>one. It took me a long time to learn that. Footnote: so many garden
visitors
>thought those blossoms were white roses...and I maliciously did not say
they
>weren't as they were surrounded by roses. bill grant monterey bay
>
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