Summer and Winter
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Summer and Winter
- From: S* G* <s*@hotmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 23:38:38 PDT
Gosh! Julie's discussion of summer just makes me more than ever conscious
that here in Melbourne there are still two months of winter remaining - and
we really don't get our wettest / windiest weather until Sept/Oct!
Not that I am really complaining - the pared down elegance of many winter
flowering plants are just wonderful.
It has been an odd winter so far here - not all that cold yet (a kind of
Indian Winter maybe) - is that the same with other Southern Hemisphere
gardeners?? It is quite bizarre to see a dahlia still flowering - and a
number of summer/autumn flowering sages also still have flowers.
But all the usual characters are starting - galanthus, jonquils, cyclamen
coum... and the camellias...every year I lecture myself on the virtues of
restraint but to little avail...last Friday I walked around the Melb
Botanical Gardens - and spotted a number of species camellias - then took my
self off to Camellia Lodge Nursery (a wonderful place) - list in hand - and
purchased C. yunnanensis and C. crapnelliana.
I have to say though that the current highlight in my garden are some winter
flowering Kniphofias (Winter Cheer versions 1 and 2)that are in a grouping
with a couple of euphorbias,phormiums, melianthus, Lobeia laxa and a few
other bits and pieces - only draw back is that the wattle birds are
attracted to the kniphofia 'torches' and keep snapping them off in their
greedy haste to get to the nectar!
Oh the joys of winter gardening!!!
Susan George
McCrae, Victoria, Australia
>From: "Julie" <jaknelson@shastalink.k12.ca.us>
>Reply-To: jaknelson@shastalink.k12.ca.us
>To: <nsterman@mindsovermatter.com>, <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
>Subject: Re: Cut back artichokes?
>Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 19:20:23 -0700
>
>In my garden in Redding, it's high flowering season for pomegranate,
>myrtle,
>Buddleia, and daylilies; each morning with cup of coffee on the deck I
>enjoy
>a rather garish border of red-orange daylilies and pomegranate with
>intermingled purple Buddleia and asters. It looks better than it sounds!
>Am also enjoying an abundance of cut flowers, from Stokesia to Alstroemeria
>to gladiolus. Lots of swallowtails and hummingbirds in the garden. Almost
>makes up for the 100+ degree days. We've had an abundance of wildfires in
>the county this last week, including one at the end of our street in a wild
>area of blue oak (Q. douglasii) and manzanita (Arctostaphylos viscida). My
>husband was out in the middle of the night with a shovel helping to put it
>out while I checked hoses in the dark.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nan Sterman <nsterman@mindsovermatter.com>
>To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
>Date: Monday, July 05, 1999 6:56 PM
>Subject: Cut back artichokes?
>
>
> >Hi everyone! It's been a long hot day in the garden. I weeded and raked
> >and reconfigured my drip system.... I cut back a huge Salvia apiana and
> >now I smell like sage scrub!
> >
> >I was looking at the artichokes. They produced magnificently this year,
>I
> >cut at least 75 chokes from three plants! Now they look pretty sad and
> >straggly and I wonder if I should cut them back or let them die back.
>And
> >if I cut them back, how far shall I cut them?
> >
> >Thanks and how are your gardens?
> >
> >Nan
> >**********
> >'''''''''''''''''''''''
> >Nan Sterman
> >San Diego County California
> >Sunset zone 24, USDA hardiness zone 10b or 11
> >
> >
>
>
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