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re Moira's native plants posting.

Moira Ryan wrote:
>.... although much work has been done by nurserymen to
encourage the use of plants, both indigenous and exotic, which
are more suitable to this climate, scant attention has been
paid to our specific climatic zones in South Australia.
For example, many Campanula species do not flower on the
Adelaide plains, as we don't have low enough temperatures
in winter.  

Hi Moira,
Sounds as if you might need a Geoff Hamilton. BBC TV ran field trials of
all sorts of things, and the late Geoff was thus in a position to regularly
show the Gardener's World public exactly how plants performed: "Now you may
have thought that these Duke of York were as good as they get ......but
just LOOK at these beauties by comparison ". Since Geoff's demise the Great
British Public haven't found a tv presenter who "really" knows plants.
Sadly, since here in the west of Ireland we remained in what was
distainfully referred to as "one channel land", we were unable to receive
the benefit of such wisdom until the advent of the satellite dish. 

Which campanulas are the problematic ones ?

If I understand you, Adelaide has similar winters to a zone nine Irish
garden, (mild and wet) but with more summer heat and less summer rainfall.
Is that roughly right ? 

Mark Speakman 
Annaghdown, Ireland
"Had I the heavens embroidered threads
Enwrought with gold and silver light"
markspkn@iol.ie
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