Re: Crithmum maritimum (Sea Fennel)

"Lindsay, Deborah" wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I just bought one plant of Crithmum maritimum and wonder what people's
> experiences with it have been. How drought tolerant is it?
> Can it grow through our 6 month bone-dry but not particularly hot season
> without
> irrigation (once established) or would it like
> a soak once a month or ?.
> Will it take once per week irrigation without rotting out? How wide
> does it grow? If I can get it to bloom and set seed is it difficult to
> germinate? It is a new one to me and very interesting (of course every
> medit.
> plant new to me is inherently interesting...)I've already done a google
> search
> but I'm not finding info about growing it in *gardens*.
> 
> Deborah Lindsay
> Oakland,Ca. where we are having an unseasonably warm, dry week, but I'm not
> complaining!

Yes, I would definitely have replied to Deborah only, if I hadn't opened
innumerable previous messages this morning reminding me to change the
address setting. We have grown Crithmum for a number of years now and
found it much easier than its reputation suggests. Ordinary potting
compost, litre pots and watering throughout the summer with our very
alkaline water once every three days and it flowers and sets seed quite
happily. One proviso though, we have to keep it in tunnels otherwise the
deer will eat it down to the roots. This means it doesn't get the usual
British Winter drowning. I suspect in its native habitat it gets a lot
of rain fall which doesn't affect it too much because it is found on
steep cliffs.
Anthony (in Britain, where unlike Jim's part of Central Indiana, the
temperature has definitely slipped back below freezing)
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