FW: The over enthusiastic gardener


 
From: asmrichards@hotmail.com
To: owner-medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
Subject: The over enthusiastic gardener
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:46:55 +0000

Dear Medit gardeners,
 
I have an unusual problem, our new gardener who has the sunniest nature you could hope to find is doing too much work.
My garden is in Sicily 37.5 N12.5 E, but I live in London, so till March of last year, I had the familiar difficulty of the non resident Medit gardener, that when you leave, everything is
looking fine, but by the time you return, it has reverted to jungle.
 
Since March 2008, Guiseppe has been working like a beaver, and the place looks beautifully kempt on our arrival. However this time my plant garden, which was looking tidy enough in November has been cut back to within an inch of it's collective life now in January.
 
When maintenance was largely dictated by how often I could be in Sicily, a regime of cutting back and cleaning up in September, followed by another tidy up in January/February
seemed to work well enough.
 
I would love to know what your mediterranean maintenance regimes are,
and the reasons you do what you do when you do it.
 
I should add that Guiseppe's experience is with citrus and olives, not horticulture.
 
with best wishes
 
Alison
 
The plant list includes;
 
Aeoniums various
Artemesia ?caucasica
Carissa macrocarpa
Cistus various
Duranta repens
Echium candicans
Euphorbia ?characias
Lavander dentata
Gaura lindheimeri
Murrayia paniculata
Phlomi fruticosa
plectranthus argentatus
Pittosporum tenuifolium
Perovskia
Polygala dalmaisiana
Salvia officinalis
Santolina
 
Alison Richards
 

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