Re: Euphorbia Lambii Info please

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Wim
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "david feix" <davidfeix@yahoo.com>
To: <Trevorshighclass@aol.com>; <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: Euphorbia Lambii Info please


> --- Trevorshighclass@aol.com wrote:
> > Does any one have experience with growing this
> > Euphorbia.  On doing a search 
> > one site says it requires part shade and moister and
> > another full sun and low 
> > water requirements.  I would like to know if it will
> > take dry hot summers.  
> > Your assistance would be appreciated.
> > 
> 
> Trevor,
> I have planted it out here in cool maritime influenced
> Berkeley, Ca in both full sun and as a container plant
> in bright shade.  It seems to handle both situations
> equally well, but is certainly more lush and larger
> growing with more water and less sun.  As a hot day
> here is mild compared to most of Australia, full sun
> is not baking or all that dry,(we stay fairly humid in
> summer and get frequent overcast from almost daily
> fog/low clouds here May through September, and have
> cool mornings/evenings/55F with daily highs usually
> below 75F; perfect gardening weather!)  It is rather
> frost sensitive, and should be protected from more
> than a degree or two of frost.
> 
> A very nice landscape or specimen container plant, and
> I would counsel more shade and water based on my
> experience, but have not seen it in habitat in the
> Canary Islands to know if it prefers similar
> conditions there.  I suspect it grows in partly shaded
> evergreen forest margins with more fog/low cloud
> precipitation to supplement the long dry summers, and
> is used to cooler conditions from growing at fairly
> high altitude.  It seems to like the same
> temperature/moisture regimen as Echium wildprettii,
> but will tolerate more shade.
> 
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