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Re: california plants

Dan,
Lots of us in California and I would think on the Medit-Plants email 
server are interested in our local flora. I personally belong to the 
California Native Plant Society and have driven to Rancho Santa Ana for 
their native plant symposiums. Having said that, I also enjoy the broad 
palette of plants we can choose from around the world that will grow in 
our climate zones. Having worked in a Bay Area retail nursery for the 
last seven years I can definitely say there is a wider choice of 
non-native Medit plants to choose from...probably because California 
Medit-Plants are a subset of a much larger group of worldwide Medit 
plants and partially because appropriate natives are harder to find in 
local nurseries. 

I think there is also a fascination with growing something from Greece, 
the Azore Islands, South Africa or faraway lands. Native plant gardeners 
experience a pride and joy with reintroducing a plant to part of its 
former range. I guess we are all plant lovers with never enough room, 
money or time to grow all the plants that catch our eyes, ears, nose, 
tongue, fingers and toes!

"Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons."
>From "The solace of open spaces" (1985) by Gretel Ehrlich

Ernie G. Wasson
El Cerrito,California
in the Berkeley-Oakland hills
Sunset Zone 16/17, USDA Zone 9/10
"All Plants Considered" column at www.gardens.com
40+ inches of precipitation and thoroughly enjoying it!
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