Re: Screening with California Natives?
- To: k*@quack.kfu.com, m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: Screening with California Natives?
- From: G*@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 22:21:12 EST
In a message dated 1/24/0 1:49:00 AM, karl@quack.kfu.com writes:
<< I would like to put a living screen just outside the chainlink (yuck) fence
at the back of our property. >>
Dear Karl,
Saratoga Horticultural Research Foundation in Morgan Hill may have plants and
suggestions for you.
I once had a wonderful screen of Fremontia californica, Ceanothus, and Prunus
demissa. Common Edible and Useful Plants of the West book says Prunus
demissa (Chokecherry) grows to 10 feet. Mine grew to be much taller. The
plants were stagger-planted about three deep to make a natural looking screen
that completely blocked the chain link fence. In the spring, when the Redbud
trees were in bloom against the Ceanothus, the view was breathtaking.
Nancy
Los Altos, CA
