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Mallorca new garden

>Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 11:39:42 -0500
    
>Sender: owner-medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
    
>From: "Rocio Valencia Felipe" <rvalenci@teleline.es>
    
>To: <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
    
>Subject: Mallorca new garden
    
>
    
> We are an spaniard family from Madrid with a new house in Mallorca.
    
> We have brought with us some half hardy plants from our conservatory in
    
> Madrid to try to put them here outside.
    
> We are in a marvellous rocky cliff near by the sea, where strong and
    
> sometimes cold winds are frequent.
    
> We'll appreciate your suggestions for the best hedge/screen choice, some
    
> scented evergreen climbers and the survival posibilities for:
    
> Dracena drago and fragans, Cordyline terminalis, Avocado, Mango, Clivias
    
> miniata, Strelitzia reginae, Hippeastrum, Ficus benjamina, Beaucarnia,
   
> Cymbidium.
    
> Thanks for your advices.

Welcome to Medit-Plants - 

All of the plants you mention seem to stand a good chance in the climate
of Mallorca, but shelter from winds would be very important.  One of the
best hedges I find is Rhamnus alaternus, the Italian Buckthorn.  It grows
quickly, tolerates drought when established, can be sheared very narrow
(always good for a hedge) and is a nice evergreen with clean dark foliage
all the way to the ground in most cases.

You are now neighbors to Hugo Latymer, a member of this group and author
of The Mediterranean Gardener (see a review on the Medit-Plants pages:
http://www.support.net/Medit-Plants/inprint/tmghl.html), as well as
Heidi Gildemeister, the current president of the Mediterranean Garden
Society (see http://www.support.net/Medit-Plants/groups/mgs.html) and
author of Mediterranean Gardening: A Waterwise Approach (see
http://www.support.net/Medit-Plants/inprint/mgawahg.html).  Each of these
books are good references, and the Mediterranean Garden Society is a
great group which publishes a monthly journal written by members.  Hugo
also runs a major nursery on Mallorca, so he would be a good resource for
you as well.

Good luck and enjoy developing your new garden!!
Sean O.


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