Re: Lavender
- To: j*@earthlink.net, m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: Lavender
- From: J* D*
- Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 19:00:20 -0700 (PDT)
--- Janet Smithen <jansmithen@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hi Pamela,
>
> My favorite lavender for cutting is Lavandula
> multifida. The branched stalks
> produce short fluffy heads of vivid purple flowers
> over fern-like foliage.
> Flowers are produced year round in So. Calif. with
> the best ones during the
> cool times of the year. The last time I was at the
> nursery I saw they had it
> labeled Lavandula pinnata buchii.
>
> Can you grow lavender in Hawaii? I would think it
> would hate the high
> humidity.
Extensive areas of upland leeward Maui and Hawai'i
have a rather mediterranean climate: long dry summers
and cool wet winters. Even lower altitude leeward
areas might qualify on Kauai/Oahu/Moloka'i, except
perhaps for winters that don't go below 55F.
If you do try it find a spot with good
> drainage, full sun all day,
> and mulch the plant crown with gravel or small lava
> rocks. Let us know how
> you do with it.
>
> Jan
>
> Mach T. Fukada wrote:
>
> > I am looking for a variety of lavender that would
> do well as a cut flower.
> > I remember reading about them in a Sunset magazine
> sometime ago, but lost
> > the article.
> >
> > Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Pamela Fukada
> >
> > Mach T. Fukada
> > AKA member 07778
> > fukada@aloha.net
> >
> > MACh Tech,
> > Macintosh Computer and Agriculture/Aquaculture
> Consulting
> >
> > Visit our friends at the Honolulu Aquarium Society
> >
>
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/2948/HASF.html
>
> --
>
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> Jan Smithen, gardening teacher
> Los Angeles County
> Arboretum
> jansmithen@earthlink.net
> Sunset zone : 19
> USDA zone : 10
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~jansmithen/
>
> Visit the Victorian Rose Garden website at :
> http://victorian-rose.org/
>
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