RE: Adelaide

The warm water shouldn’t be a problem but even Ceanothus don’t like prolonged periods of drought, semi-drought and more drought. They never get a chance to recover fully. Nearby trees will take every last drop of soil moisture from shrubs, even toughies like California lilacs. I mulch deeply with rough, coarse mulch – mostly big slabs of pea straw taken straight off the bale when the baling twine is cut. I do not plant near established trees but try to make the Ceanothus the highest layer of growth under scented leaf geraniums, cistus, rosemaries, yuccas, agapanthus etc.

 

Not much can be done now but watch and see the full extent of damage as it develops over the next few weeks. Hope we get a summer thunderstorm soon. Water deeply if you are able to.

 

Good Luck

 

Trevor N.

 

From: owner-medit-plants@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-medit-plants@ucdavis.edu] On Behalf Of Margaret A Healey
Sent: Tuesday, 3 February 2009 1:34 PM
To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
Subject: Adelaide

 

Sorry if this is of local rather than global importance but having spent the morning trying to save my California lilacs- my last tough hedge- and discovering that even the water in my underground tank was warm, I was wondering if anything was surviving in Adelaide and if so how did you do it?

 

Margaret Healey

Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index