Re: [Fwd: Re: california plants]

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• To: m*@ucdavis.edu
• Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: california plants]
• From: n*@ucsd.edu (Nan Sterman)
• Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 21:02:19 -0700

Well Barry, I'm about to plant several manzanitas and I live near the
coast.  What's your recommendation?

Nan

>Since California native plants are so acclimatized, i think thats why
>they have a bad time competing with invaders. Another real good example
>of pickyness among californias native plants. Manzanitas have the worst
>track record in respect to having their roots bothered. Theyre almost
>as bad as Leptospermums. When i was working at the Watershed Building
>on my school Campus they said we had to be real careful with the
>manzanitas because of that problem, but i digress. Ive seen many of the
>plants native to the hills do poorly near the coast. Many just die
>within two or three years of planting close to the coast.
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>"Stop judging so that you may not be judged. For as you Judge, so will
>you be judged, and the measure with which you measure will be measured
>out to you"
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Nan Sterman, Master Composter in Residency
Olivenhain, California
Sunset Zone 24, USDA Zone 10b or 11
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So goes an old chinese proverb:
         If you want to be happy for a few hours, get drunk;
         If you want to be happy for a week-end get married;
         If you want to be happy for a week, barbeque a pig;
         If you want to be happy all your life long become a gardener 

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