Re: Ready for drugs
- Subject: Re: Ready for drugs
- From: J* D*
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:57:48 -0800 (PST)
Some people in the Bay Area probably feel lucky to get
a barrel cactus through the winter, let alone a
saguaro; any winter-rainfall-adapted cactus is a boon
to those who grow them. I have never seen B. emoryi
for sale up here, and wonder if it will survive our
12-50 annual inches of rain. This winter gave us our
annual totals in an early deluge followed by a dry
Jan-Feb.
Thanks for the details on these SoCal cacti.
-Jason
San Fran
PS Maybe the military could sell extra Bergerocactus
from explosions on San Clemente Island! ;-)
--- Mark Fryer <mock@q7.com> wrote:
>
> Jason, anyone else interested..
>
> I think getting a consensus of So. CA native prickly
> pear Opuntias would
> be in itself a major undertaking, the Chollas
> slightly less so (thanks to
> Jon Rebman of the SDNHM).. but yes, talk about an
> underutilized group of
> plants.
>
> The paucity of Bergerocactus plantings in SD Coastal
> gardens baffles me
> to no end. What maddens me is the rate at which
> these plants continue to
> get dozed for new housing developments, yet it seems
> growers are terrified
> to grow them (is this purely a political
> situation?).. well, whatever,
> that's not really on topic. The only thing I would
> add about them, having
> gotten a few going here, is how amazingly 'no-care'
> they are. While the
> flowers aren't particularly showy, they do attract
> hummingbirds, and the
> fruit splitting characteristic in the summer months
> is intriguing..
> especially to see that red jelly oozing down those
> bright golden spines.
> I suppose well-established clumps would attract a
> number of birds.
>
> I'll second your comments on the columnar and
> shrubby Chileans. I've
> noticed there are few of these that don't seem to
> thrive here, and that
> would not make excellent choices as accent plants in
> the medit-garden
> pallet. Perhaps the mistakes of those who attempt to
> grow Saguaros and
> other Sonoran desert plants that won't exactly
> thrive here without some
> serious watering in the summer and protection from
> our winter rains (this
> past year being the obvious exception) has infringed
> on their popularity?
>
> Mark
> San Diego CA
> ___________________________________
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Jason D wrote:
> > speaking of which, it would be especially cool to
> see
> > an article specifically on cacti from medit
> climates,
> > such as those coastal SoCal Opuntias,
> Bergerocactus
> > emoryi, and all those columnar Chilean species
> that
> > grow so far into their winter-rainfall zones.
> > and since i don't read the San Diego papers, could
> you
> > send an article link to the list without blushing?
> > Thanks!
> > Jason Dewees
> > San Francisco
>
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