Re: format

I much prefer plain text messages myself and have my
preferences set to wrye and send only plain text. As
for who shows up in the address, I click on reply to
all and then simply highlight and delete all but the
meditplants list.

Deborah Lindsay
Oakland, California

--- "Fort Wayne, IN" <4042N15@nationalhearing.com>
wrote:

> Hi Karrie,
> I'm not particulary experienced in medit-plants as I
> live in Zone 5, so I
> can't suggest much for your situation.  I do want to
> say, though, that it
> sounds lovely.  I changed this subject line because
> I needed to ask a couple
> of questions and did not want to detract from your
> question.
> As seen below and in my response, it appears that
> this list-serv handles
> mail in html instead of plain text.  Is that right? 
> Just want to be sure
> that I don't end up sending a bunch of code making
> messages difficult to
> read.  Other lists I am on require plain text.
> Also, when I clicked reply for this message, the
> automatic entry for the
> "to" line is directly to the message writer (in this
> case, Karrie) rather
> than to the list.  Is that the norm here?  I changed
> it, but there's a good
> chance I may forget to do that at times in the
> future.  This used to be a
> problem sometimes on a list I was on a few years
> back, and I think then I
> used reply to all, but that meant the original
> writer got the response
> twice.
> Any recommendations?
> 
> Kitty neIN, Z5
> 
>   -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> [o*@ucdavis.edu]On Behalf Of
> Reid Family
> Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 7:15 PM
> To: medit-plants
> Subject: difficult spot
> 
> 
>   To all of you experienced plantspeople:
>   I have a  trouble spot that I am replanting and
> would love a few
> suggestions.  The space is a narrow bed between the
> edge of my pool surround
> and the fence.  Our family room has a wall of
> windows that looks out onto
> the roomy deck, down to the pool and then to this
> back border of the
> property, so it is the backdrop of the house and
> main yard view.  It is
> barely four feet wide at the left end narrowing to
> two feet wide on the
> right end.   Other beds and sections of the garden
> pick up at each end.  It
> runs roughly north to south, so that in winter it
> stays pretty much in shade
> at ground level, with perhaps a glimpse of sun in
> the afternoon in very
> early and very late winter.  In summer, it gets
> morning shade and baking
> inland afternoon sun, and is watered once a week to
> 10 days.  Currently
> planted there are 5 Podocarpus gracilior spaced
> approx. 6 ft. apart and now
> about 8-10 ft. high.  The redwood fence itself is
> draped beautifully in a
> vigorous Macfadyena unguis-cati (a vine I highly
> recommend BTW- it now grows
> up into the Aleppo pine tree on the far right and
> hangs down tendrils like
> Spanish moss!)  Originally Myoporum parviflorum was
> planted below, and it
> thrived.  But I wanted a smaller vertical element
> between the Podocarpus, so
> I planted daylilies.  They did not get enough sun to
> bloom, so I moved them
> and in a fit of madness planted a few bulbs of
> Crocosmia.  For the first
> couple of years it was stunning, and the fire
> orange-red blooms just glowed
> in the afternoon summer sun.  However, they leaned
> away from the fence to
> get the most sun possible, and created too much
> litter for the pool.  They
> also spread like wildfire, as anyone who has grown
> them knows, and because
> they grow so thick and closer than an Arkansas clan,
> they crowded out the
> Myoporum. Very dissatisfactory.  Soooooo, now I am
> eradicating them and
> would like another suggestion.  I wouldn't mind if
> whatever it is died back
> completely in winter, but I don't want something
> that looks really ugly in
> winter, since it is in such a visible spot.   The
> soil is also somewhat
> heavy, so anything that is fussy about drainage is
> probably not going to
> like it.  I may replant the Myoporum, and something
> that would grow up
> through it, bloom in the warm months and die down
> would be acceptable.  The
> myoporum is not an essential however, and I am open
> to all suggestions,
> preferring something with color, since once the
> Cat's claw vine is done
> blooming, the view is just a study in green. 
> Pastels are not going to show
> up much in this bright glary spot though, (think
> aggregate concrete and pool
> reflection) although white might do.  The rest of
> the garden in back,
> however tends to bold color, lots of purples and
> blues and golden yellows,
> even dark pink and some pale and dark oranges.  It
> may sound loud, but it
> takes the focus off the rather large pool we
> inherited with the house!
>   So, there you go!  Let the challenge begin!
> 
>   With gratitude in advance,
>   Karrie Reid
>   Folsom Foothill Gardener
>   Zone 9
> 


	
		
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