Re: lantana

Wendy,

>What is the deal with lantana (L. montevidensis or sellowiana?)?? I
>drive around Napa and see lovely profusions......

I really does seem to do better on thin, free draining soils - the
more it is 'molly-coddled', the more it is likely to die-back.  L.
montividensis is probably the hardiest of the species and does well
even in the south of England - but it has to have a relatively poor
diet and no additional watering except possibly during the hottest and
driest of spells.  A friend who grows it in his garden just outside
Puerto de la Cruz in Tenerife has his best plants (the parents of
mine) growing in poor gravelly soil on the banks at the side of his
driveway.  They are never watered and certainly never receive any
fertiliser or additional compost.  Mine cascade down from the top of a
wall, growing in the thinnest scrape of poor, dust-like, soil you
could imagine.  These are never watered either, the leaves retaining
that bronze hue throughout the year.  Even as I write, they are in
flower.

David Poole
TORQUAY UK
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