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Re: Yerba Buena (Satureja douglasii)
>THis talk of the Labiatae ( Lamiates) got me to thinking of a native of
>the Maritime Chapparral, Satureja douglasii ( Micromeria chamissonis).
>Common name is Yerba Buena.
I love yerba buena! I have a little bit of it growing in my back yard under
some Hawaiian Kahili ginger I got from another Medit Planter a couple of
years ago (at present, the ginger is looking rather...brown, but I expect
it to recover). As Barry said, it spreads slowly. It seems to like the
loose compost I've piled around the ginger and the extra water I try to
give the ginger as well. I usually see it as part of the undergrowth in oak
forest (with the poison oak, unfortunately!) and I always pick a sprig to
sniff while I'm hiking. Yerba buena is what I've always imagined Tolkien's
"athelas" (from The Lord of the Rings) to smell like.
Here's my web page on yerba buena, with a photo and appropriate Tolkien quote:
http://www.best.com/~renshaw/garden/miscyerba.html
Cheryl
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Wayne & Cheryl Renshaw
renshaw@best.com
http://www.best.com/~renshaw
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