Re: Rockery plants: Cerastium tomentosum

on 1/10/05 10:40 PM, Karl Hoover at amateur_peasant@yahoo.com wrote:

> If this plant proves as vigorous as claimed,
> perhaps I can stick a few sprigs of it in the
> between the rocks in my backyard and drive out
> the Centaurea solstitialis (star thistles) so
> thoughtfully brought to me from the neighboring
> cattle ranchers' pastures...

That would just double your pleasure and double your fun and give you
something to keeo you busy for the rest of your life! ;-)

Seriously, snow-in-summer is not in the same class as star thistle.  For one
thing, it is not nearly as drought-tolerant as the thistle is.

John MacGregor
South Pasadena, CA 91030
USDA zone 9   Sunset zones 21/23
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