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Re: Humidity and L. stoechas . . .

William:

I grow them under glass where I maintain the humidity between 45-60% during
the summer, higher in the winter. Temps usually max out in the mid to high
80s F in the summer. They have done well, though the light quality could be
better. We have two clones. One is the cultivar "Otto Quasti" and the other
was grown from seed we received from Spain.

We've also grown them outside where they do OK. Our summers get into the
low 100's F. The only problem is they don't like our winters. We got down
to 3*F last winter, and so far this winter only to 7*F. They do require
quite a bit of clean up in spring. We drip irrigate, and our soil has a lot
of clay in it. We have rotted them out with too much water in the summer,
and the ones that do best are on elevated fill mounds.

At 10:19 03/11/1998 -0600, you wrote:
>I just got a Spanish Lavendar (Lavendula steochas .....) Does anyone know
>about this (hopefully) more heat tollerant Lavendar species? It was
>advertised as heat tollerant and drought resistant. My question will probably
>be what does it think about HUMIDITY? Is this one any Mediterranean plant
>people have seen?
>

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Jon M. Stewart (AKA Bushrat), New Mexico

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