Re: Good Books on California Plant Communities
- Subject: Re: Good Books on California Plant Communities
- From: N* S*
- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:56:55 -0700
>
>I may have mentioned this before to the group, but I
>do wonder if the greater significance of summer fog
>drip along the coast and the localized summer rainfall
>effect created by trees such as
>Pines/Eucalypts/Redwoods in fog belt areas is a net
>increase of available water within a watershed, rather
>than decrease such as has been documented in the
>Western Cape of South Africa. As far as I know, this
>is not a well researched topic here in California, but
>I am sure someone in the group can prove me wrong, or
>point me in the right direction...
An interresting point, David and I don't recall picking up on your
question in the past, but it makes me think of a native plant
landscaper here in the San Diego area. This guy claims that he uses
overhead spray on his natives, several times over the summer not as a
way of getting water to plant roots, but rather to wet down the
leaves. He says that his plants absolutely thrive when he does it --
I have no idea if he has done any research on teh topic but he is a
disciple of the man who runs Las Pilitas nursery (whose name I can't
recall at the moment). Perhaps the idea came from him and he has
done some research in this area. Have you looked at the Las Pilitas
website?
Nan
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