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Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 3:28
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Subject: Rockery plants
I would like to
thank everyone who has given me some really helpful advice for our newly
acquired Costa Blanca Garden. The excellent advice for evergreen trees
for this fairly rocky but green coastal area as been taken up and the big
planting has begun. We have chosen Olives, Arbutus, Carob, Bay, Ficus Nitida
and 2 Feijoas all being planted tomorrow. Its all very exciting and these
will complement the many mediterranean pines and the dozen or so Palms plus
the many other shrubs which we already have in the
garden.
The next project
is a beautiful rockery which we have uncovered - alot of bedrock, some added
rocks, some of it under the pines, some in the open area. There are lots
of earth spaces and I would like some advice of what plants would be suitable
to grow among these quite dry rocks. I would like some showy colourful
plants (not annuals), not all creeper types but I would some height in
some spaces as well.
Thank
you. Any advice much appreciated.
PS I have just
heard and read about the dreaded Pine Processionary Caterpillar!!! Does
anyone have advice or stories about this creature?
Pamela Steele
Dear Pamela,
Maybe Salvia sp., Encelia farinosa,
Mimulus aurantiacus. Zauschneria californica, Eyringium (Sea Holly), Penstemon
parryi and heterophylla, Teucrium (Germander), Eriogonum sp., Monardella sp.,
Dudleya sp. Verbena sp., Aloe sp., Pelargonium sp. or something along this
line.
Tim Kalman
