Re: Bay Area Olive Tours
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: Bay Area Olive Tours
- From: D*@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:48:43 EST
So Cyndi when are you going to come see me and the roof garden (that's
Deborah whining outrageously), right in your own backyard, and quite
exceptionally wheel-chair accessible? There are a dozen or so Olive trees, as
well as many other Mediterranean and mediterranean climate species. Let me
tempt you with really nice specimens of:
Quercus suber (Cork Oak), Q. ilex (Holly Oak), Rhus lancea (African Sumac),
Pittosporum undulatum (Victorian Box), Arbutus unedo (Strawberry Tree),
Echium candicans (Pride-of Madeira) is blooming now, Feijoa sellowiana
(Pineapple Guava), Griselinia littoralis (common name?), Phormium tenax (New
Zealand Flax). There is a medit-plants perennial border but this isn't its
best season.
There are plenty of non-medit plants too (way too many for me like +/- 500
roses and an acre of turf). But the Magnolia soulangianas (Saucer Magnolias)
are blooming gloriously, some rhododendrons and azaleas are confused and
blooming now, all the Camellia japonicas are in bloom.
Narcissus, Muscari, Hyacinths, even some Tulips are blooming now too. It has
been a wierd warm-cold-warm-cold kind of winter.
I'm more than happy to have visitors...
Deborah
