Re: alternative to a boxwood hedge, how about Garrya buxifolia
- To: b*@hotmail.com
- Subject: Re: alternative to a boxwood hedge, how about Garrya buxifolia
- From: K* H*
- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 18:32:02 -0800
I haven't seen Box-leaf silk tassel but just ran into it in a catalog. It's
a California and S. Oregon native and sounds very nice.
At 20:23 03/28/2000 PST, Anne Conlon wrote:
>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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>Sunset zone 24, USDA hardiness zone 10b or 11
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