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Re: Humidity and L. stoechas - loves it

At 1:02 PM +1100 12-3-98, Richard Dufresne wrote:
>On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, William M. Groth 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?
>> ______________________________
>
>Since you are in the Houston area, where you get even more heat and humidity
>than I get in the Carolinas, you might consider a trick that I learned from
>Art O. Tucker of Delaware State.  Art is one of the country's experts on
>essential oils in herbs and has to grow them for his research in Dover on
>the Chesapeake peninsula.  He noted that his climate is similar to that of
>the south of France, except for summer humidity.
Stoechas is much more humidity tolerant than the varieties grown in France
Your big problem will be getting it through a Houston winter.
There are very mant interesting steochas cultivars grow here.
One or two proclaimed weeds. (I should be so lucky!)

Michael Bailes.
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