[medit-plants] Re: Introducing myself

Hi Jeanne -

Interesting to hear about your project.  Public parks prone to abuse by maintenance crews are challenging indeed!

You remind me of my childhood and learning about plants.  Growing up in Santa Clara County of California in the 1950s-60s.  A once important agricultural community was giving way to sub-urban development, and there were many old farm properties that were becoming abandoned.  Often these included a personal garden surrounding the main house.  Vestiges of the garden were not uncommon, with some plants persisting while others died out.  This left only those plants that could live gracefully in the mediterranean climate conditions.  I recall taking note of this, and sometimes I took plants as well (before the whole place was bulldozed flat in preparation for tract housing)!

Observing these plants surviving or often thriving under such condition has stuck with me until today.  Species are often more hardy than we give them credit, and the mediterranean climate regions of the world are home to thousands of desirable species.

(BTW - is 'Jeannie B' a nickname?)


On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 8:29 AM, Jeanne Bardems <j*@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello everyone,
My name is Jeanne and I live in a small town North of San Francisco Bay. We are not very close to that waterway and well inland from the coast, so our average temperatures are hotter and colder than many places in the Bay Area.
My town is tiny and poorly funded but the people are nice and I enjoy the quiet. I do not have much land on which to create a garden but I do volunteer at our local small park. Mostly I help make sure that the maintenance crew does not kill every living plant other than the trees!
Because I volunteer and there is no money budgeted for the improvement of this park I am trying to find plants that can do well on their own and not require extra water other than what falls from the skies.
This past rainy season was wonderful for my project and I hope it helps establish many of the plants I have put into the ground in the fall.
Already there are many rosemarys blooming happily!

Jeannie B

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