Re: low maintenance
Low maintenance is a principal that can be taken into consideration for
every
location and type of garden, including moist areas, where you would
provide drainage.
To me, low maintenance is planting properly in the first place:
1) The right plant in the right place
2) A $5 plant in a $10 hole
I often quote rhododendron author and expert, David Leach, who had this
to say about planting:
"A job of planting properly done means much less aftercare for a
long, long time. The difference is so great that the lazy man will
plant rhododendrons with meticulous propriety in simple self-defence
against any future demands on his energy: for only at planting time can
the soil be modified properly to meet the requirements of
rhododendrons."
This can be said about a gardens and plants, generally.
Diane Pertson
Otter Point Haven otterpt@macn.bc.ca
Nature Notes from Vancouver Island
http://zapbc.com/nature.htm at
Parksville & Qualicum Beach Online http://zapbc.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Starkeson <johnsaia@dnai.com>
To: <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Cc: <grant@cruzio.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: low maintenance
>
>
> William A. Grant wrote:
>
> > What plants are low maintenance and totally deer-resistant?
> > For a bone-dry hillside grazed by deer and infested with gophers.
> > And for a Med garden.
> > Bill Grant, Calif central coast
>
> Cactus - if well drained soil -
> Also Colchicum is probably deer resistant - if not it might reduce the
> deer population. Definitley gophers won't eat.
> Ceanothus is somehwat deer -resistant - but deer munching encourages
new
> growth.
>
