Oenothera


Speaking of Oenothera sp - on Saturday at my local Alpine Garden Socity 
meeting (we are interested in rock garden plants not just alpines) members 
were showing favorite slides and somebody had a picture of a 'sidewalk' 
garden that they had taken last year when they  visited California - the 
picture included Oenothera californ(ica?) (not exactly sure) that just 
looked delightful. Has anyone grown it - what it is like (in the picture it 
appeared to have grey foliage with creamy white flowers lightly touched with 
pink) - is it a thug?

Susan George
McCrae, Victoria, Australia

>From: John Dreher <dreher@seti.org>
>Reply-To: dreher@seti.org
>To: Rachel@haasjr.org, medit-plants <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
>Subject: Re: info on Oenothera "siskyou"
>Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 11:27:57 -0700
>
>Dear Rachel,
>I'm in Berkeley too and have seen lovely sidewalk plantings of
>Oenothera...very nice choice. I think the idea of mulching heavily is a 
>good
>one. I too had a front yard weed lawn that I had the neighbors' gardeners
>rototill under for me two years ago. They removed the top growth but not 
>all
>the roots, and I thought I'd be pulling grass, dandelions, and thistles
>forever, but have had only a few weeds to contend with. I plant heavily and
>mulch. For my sidewalk strip, which I don't water, the plant that has done 
>the
>best weed-smothering is Helichrysum petiolatum 'Limelite.' It keeps its 
>frosty
>chartreuse leaves year round (well, except for those unexpected freezes) 
>and I
>think would be a very nice companion to the Gaura and Oenothera, since 
>they're
>all such thugs they could just fight it out for territory. My little rock
>garden plants in the sidewalk strip are cute but not nearly as carefree -
>grass, always grass.
>
>Have you noticed that Sean currently has a Mediterranean gardening series 
>in
>the Berkeley Voice? I feel quite a proprietary sense of pride - our Sean in
>the news.
>
>
>Kay Dreher
>Berkeley, California
>


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