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RE: Native plants



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De: Alisdair <Alisdair@compuserve.com>
A: medit-plants <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Asunto: Native plants
Fecha: viernes 27 de febrero de 1998 9:32

Tony and Moira Ryan's point about niche habitats is very important. We're
gradually trying to establish native plants from elsewhere in the area in
our near-sea-level garden in Greece. If there's a poor habitat
match we stand very little chance of success.

Alisdair Aird (Sussex, England / Lefktron, Peloponnese)
Alisdair@compuserve.com
	
	latymer@ctv.es
Hugo Latymer   Spain   Zone 9      

	That business of introducing new plants to an area can be very tricky. For
years they may do nothing and then  suddenly either they die or take off.  

	Is it not underground where most goes on? We tend to think of the roots as
being a bit of stick that fixes the plant in place. But there is as much
plant below ground as above it. Bad treatment will damage root hairs more
easily than leaves. There is far more mycorrhizal symbiosis between fungi
and roots than most of us  give credit for. So we cannot introduce many
plants unless we can establish a fungus.Often one can get a plant started
more easily if you put a spadeful of soil taken from beside healthy plants
below the rootball when planting. Modern methods of growing ornamental
plants by squirting them all the time with fungicides and chemicals destrys
this symbiotic relationship so it is not strange that plants don't move 
well at times!
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