Re: alternative to a boxwood hedge
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- Subject: Re: alternative to a boxwood hedge
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- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 20:23:15 PST
From: "Anne Conlon" <basketcaz@hotmail.com>
To: nsterman@mindsovermatter.com
Subject: Re: alternative to a boxwood hedge
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 20:16:54 PST
OK, Nan, thanks for asking...
I live in San Mateo, just 12minutes south of the San Francisco airport, in
southern San Mateo, actually, which area gets quite
a bit less fog. I grow mostly herbs (pineapple sage, thyme, marjoram,
chives, lavender, tangerine southernwood etc) and veggies, also
strawberries/raspberries, poppies and clarkia, but
this spring planted 3 dwarfs: Santa Rosa plum, Blenheim apricot
and nectarine and have been growing from seed and planting out
nicotiana, yarrow (and am hoping my Himalayan poppies will
germinate!) Soil is clay, exposure is pretty much full sun; I like
blue, white, orange and red flowers, and, if the truth be told,
fluffy, frilly, fine-cut foliages, varigated foliage, and greys.
Personality-wise, I have to make an effort to attempt to remain organized as
my favorite thing to do is to make cuttings and stick
them all over the garden to see if they will "take", and to scatter
seed too, just to see what will happen. Anne (sunset zone 17; USA
hardiness zone 9)
From: Nan Sterman <nsterman@mindsovermatter.com>
Reply-To: nsterman@mindsovermatter.com
To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
Subject: Re: alternative to a boxwood hedge
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 08:22:46 -0800
Give us some more details, Anne. Where do you live, what else do you grow,
what is the exposure, what is the soil like, etc. What kinds of plants do
you like? What kind of look do you like?
Nan
>Help! (I don't have much imagination.) I have just cleared a four foot wide
>by 14ft long section in front of my house (facing west) under my bedroom
>window, and my husband wants me to plant boxwood, because it is neat. It is
>a mostly sunny, fairly dry place, and I was wondering what suggestions the
>group can come up with for me for some perennials which wouldn't go much
>over 4feet tall. I think boxwood would be so BORING. I am tempted to
>plant lavender, but it isn't quite tall enough, and besides, I have it in
>lots of other spots (I love making lavender ice cream and cookies!), so I
>could really use some inspiration. Thanking you in advance, Anne
>
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San Diego County California
Sunset zone 24, USDA hardiness zone 10b or 11
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