Re: while we're on the subject....

From:          K1MIZE@aol.com
Date:          Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:18:30 EST
To:            K1MIZE@aol.com, gilsenan@well.com, medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
Subject:       Re: while we're on the subject....
Reply-to:      K1MIZE@aol.com

In a message dated 1/25/99 4:58:34 PM EST, K1MIZE writes:

<< Can we move one now?
  >>

I'm not suggesting we move any "yellow-flowered" Oxalis plants.  I meant to
say, "Can we move ON now!"  But not before I get the answers to my questions
on the pink-flowered mystery Oxalis, please.  I have both forms of Oxalis
corniculata in my lawn.  I tried battling them with chemicals, but ended up
doing my lawn (and health) more harm than good.  Since then, I find that if I
keep my grass healthy, it competes well with the Oxalis.  For a while there,
though, it looked as if I were going to have an Oxalis lawn!  I do like the
idea of having a diversity of species in a lawn.  My former home in Santa Rosa
had English daisies (Bellis perennis, for you purists) in the front lawn, and
I always thought they were charming.  I'd like to hear about other flowering
plants that can be grown successfully in a lawn, one that is mown quite
closely and regularly.  Any suggestions?

Kurt

Dear Kurt,

Here I have One O'Clock's - Oxalis hirsuta, in three different 
colours - white, pale pink and deep pink plus one with pale striped 
flowers; there is also a form with beetroot red leaves and deep pink 
flowers. They all look fine to my eyes. In Uruguay last year I saw a 
very low Irid called Alophilla I think, rather like a very miniature 
Tigridia with vivid cobalt blue flowers from a small bulb, grassy 
foliage. I'm trying to get seed as I thionk it would look great in 
our mown rough grass - not lawn.

regards

trevor n

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