RE: Fun to touch plants


My favorites must be the Artemesias. A friend just gave me some seedlings of
Artemesia annua; soft and feathery with a great spicy chaparral kind of
scent.  It's an annual in her yard, most of the Artemesias I have are
perennial.   AND I just heard on the radio today that  A. annua is being
used for malaria treatment...it actually cures the malaria better and faster
than western remedies.  They are finding strains of the disease that are
resistant to the meds currently being used.

Ronni Brega
Oakland, Ca.
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Sent:	Friday, June 15, 2001 2:10 PM
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Subject:	Re: Fun to touch plants

At 01:26 PM 6/15/01 -0700, Nan Sterman wrote:
>How about Abutilon palmerii?

Ahh, Yes - those wonderful heart-shaped, soft-fuzzy, yellow green
leaves.  But it is those clear apricot orange flowers that really catch my
eye!  I've been meaning to get one of these into my already crowded
landscape for some time (its a fairly tall shrub!).

Another nice fuzzy leaf is Roldana (Senecio) petasitis, with rounded,
scalloped, thick, fuzzy leaves and large heads of bright yellow daisies in
winter/spring opening from deep plum-burgundy buds.

I've planting some interesting stuff down at my son's school, includeing
lavenders, lamb's ears, geraniums (Pelargonium hortorum and some scented
types).  One of the unexpected success stories is the tall Nicotiana that
I've mentioned here before.  The leaves are clammy-sticky and the kids
can't help but make each other touch them!  The kids go all shivery and
stick out their tongues - certainly worth a feel for that!!

I enjoy Coleonema where you might brush past it as you walk - a nice piney
scent and the foliage is so soft to run your hands through.

My friend Carol in Italy has a Lemon Verbena planted right at her front
gate.  You literally have to push it aside as you go through, but what a
nice scented reward you get in the process!!!!

Sean O.


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