Re: Correction to Previous: Elaeagnus multflora

Linda, 
Correct me if I am wrong, but you are in the Sierra
Nevada foothills, aren't you?  It might be too common
or obvious a choice, but Oleander certainly is fast
growing and bullet proof as to heat and drought. 
Dodonaea viscosa 'Purpurea' is another fast, easy
grower for such conditions, but may suffer some frost
damage in bad winters.  Toyon, Heteromeles arbutifolia
is not as fast, but also a very good screen
shrub/small tree with year round interest. Arbutus
unedo might also work well for you, but would
appreciate more summer water the first few years to
get it established.

I don't have any experience with the Eleagnus
multiflora you mention, but wonder if it really is all
that drought tolerant coming from summer rainfall
Japan and China?  Only E. pungens cultivars or E. x
ebbingei are much used here in the San Francisco Bay
Area, and even these are kind of an old fashioned
1950's/60's era plant not much used anymore.  I tend
to associate them with partial shade/morning sun
situations rather than full sun, but this is just how
I most often see them used locally.

 

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