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Re: re Moira's native plants posting.

Mark Speakman wrote:
> 
> 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 

There seems to be some confusion.  I don't live in Australia but in New
Zealand, where we have no trouble at all flowering Campanulas. What you
are replying to is actually a quotation from a posting by Liz Runciman
who really does live in South Australia and to  whom I made a short
reply some days ago. Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish the
original writing from later accretions.

Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
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