Re: Shrubby Secrets
- To: M*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: Shrubby Secrets
- From: "* F* D* <s*@nr.infi.net>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 02:22:27 -0500 (EST)
At 08:34 PM 1/28/1999 GMT, you wrote:
>Help! Anybody out there know anything about these obscure shrubs? -
>And does anyone know anything about the Lepechinas, once Sphaceles,
>from Chile and similar places? Are they grown at all in the US or in
>NZ or the damper bits of Oz? Phillpotts mentions S. (as it then was)
>lindleyi. The only one available (just about) from a couple of UK
>nurseries nowadays is L. floribunda. Same thing under a different name
>or a genuinely different sp? Phillpotts describes S.l. as 'a sage-like
>shrub bearing lavender blue, bell-shaped flowers, which may be
>accounted quite hardy' - which certainly rouses MY interest.
Tim:
I have grown Lepechina calycina from California (I have a JPG image I can
send you by private post, as an attachment) and L. hastata from Mexico &
Hawaii, as well as a small one from Mexico. A friend sent me seed of L.
fragrans from California; I would also like to try some of the South
American ones.
They are definitely Mediterranean in temperment, and most can get quite
large. L. calycina is called pitcher sage, and has wide tubular white
flowers. L. hastata has maroon tubular flowers.
Richard F. Dufresne
313 Spur Road
Greensboro, NC 27406
336-674-3105
