planting under Calif. live oak

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• To: Mediterranean Plants List
• Subject: planting under Calif. live oak
• From: J* D*
• Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 10:13:01 -0800

Here's a list of plants for growing under oaks (should need no supplemental
summer water) published by Sunset Magazine in its Nov. 1999 issue:

Salvia greggii
Iris douglasiana
Nepeta faassenii
Ceanothus griseus horizontalis
Ceanothus rigidus
Heuchera
Narcissus
Centranthus ruber
Rosmarinus officinalis
Erigeron karvinskianus
Sasa veitchii
Festuca ovina
Senecio cineraria
Pennisetum alopecuroides
Hypericum calycinum

Anyone have comments on this list? I too have a live oak that takes up most of
my back yard, quite beautifully, but it seems to provide more shade than I would
guess some of the above plants would need. Of course, the two story tall
apartment building just over the property line to the south could have something
to do with the shadiness....

Kay Dreher
Berkeley, California

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