Re: Our Garden over Christmas

Hello Moira

Maybe I gave a slightly wrong  impression with that list. They are all, most
certainly, summer flowerers here too, but are still soldiering gamely on at
the moment. We have passed an exceptionally mild autumn, with night temps
still around 14C up till christmas. (More usual would be 6/6/8C)  No doubt
winter is just around the corner. We now have some snow on the mountain so
whenever the skies are clear at night temps will fall to around 2C. thats
when our plants take a rest, lose their leaves etc in readiness for spring.

Like you I  read Betts description of mid winter in her garden and longed
for just the occasional glimpse of maybe hoar frost on the bare tree
branches, or the sun burning off the early morning fog to give a bright cold
still day but 'happiness' is a garden, no matter where.

And yes thanks I am having a really happy, planty, New Year so far. Hope you
are too.

regards Janet b

Janet & Richard Blenkinship

Crete zone 9/10

'What is this life if, full of care
we have no time to stand and stare' William Henry Davies

----- Original Message -----
From: Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
To: Mediterannean Plants List <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: Our Garden over Christmas


> > Janet B wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone.
> >
> > Considering this is a quiet time of the year for flowers I was amazed
> > when I went out with a pencil and pad to respond to the Christmas Eve
> > posting.
> >
> > So with a LARGE  brandy coffee in hand I offer you the following list
> > and wish you all a floriferous and sweetly scented New Millenium.
> >
> > Juanuaolla mexicana
> > Mauranidia White and Red forms
> > Cannas especially edulis
> > tulbahgia fragrans
> > Narcissus - tazettas
> > Schitzostylis coccineus
> > Paw Paw
> > Perennial Tropaeolums - especially doubles
> > Fucsia thalia
> > salvia - especially elegans, confertifolia, Purple Majesty,
> > cacalifolia, coccineus coral Nymph, leucantha
> > Perpetual carnations
> > chrysanthemums
> > felicia
> > Jasminum various
> > Bouganvillea
> > datura - several kinds
> > solanum jasminoides
> > Cestrum elegans
> > Pelargoniums - various
> > thumbergia grandiflora ,  and alata
> > cyclamen coum, and africanum
> > Begonias sp.
> > Argyranthemum
> > clereodendrum ugandense
> > cobea scandens
> > Mandevillea boliviensis
> > Passiflora descasneiana
> > Justicia adhatoda
> > Various Osteospermums and roses just starting.
> > Hibiscus rosa-sinense cultivars
>
> Janet
> I read your list with great interest as apart from a few plants such as
> Argyranthemums, Felicia, Chrysanthemums, perennial Tropaeolums, Cyclamen
> coum and the Narcissus, all your list would either be summer flowering
> in my garden or couldn't be grown in the open at all. Of the latter the
> Hibiscus is just on the borderline, but will flower almost year-round in
> a glasshouse,  Thunbergia grandiflora flourishes outdoors in summer but
> dies down to the root in winter while Bougainvillea is mzarginally OK if
> it has a bit of winter shelter. One of our limiting factors is living
> about 300ft above sea level in a valley in the hills. Only a few miles
> away down at sea level the average temperature is several degrees
> warmer, allowing the Bougainvilleas and the hardier sorts of
> H.rosa-sinensis to flourish in the open garden.
>
> I think one of the fascinations of gardening is the different pattern
> forced on us by soil and climate, irrespective of our particular likes
> and dislikes and the ways people achieve satisfying outcomes under their
> own peculiar set of conditions..
>
> Hope you are having a good New Year
>
> Moira
> --
> Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
> Wainuiomata, New Zealand. (on the "Ring of Fire" in the SW Pacific).
> Lat. 41:16S Long. 174:58E. Climate: Mediterranean/Temperate
>
>
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