Re: format

Thanks, Deborah.
Kitty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Deborah Lindsay" <corvidae2001@yahoo.com>
To: "meditplants" <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 5:20 PM
Subject: 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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