Re: loquat and Lompoc, etc.

At 06:23 PM 3/15/99 -0800, Joseph L. Seals wrote:
>...[the Loquat]seems to be much hardier than people think.  A 
>recent hard freeze here in Lompoc and Santa Maria (17-19 F) 
>did no damage whatsover to any older trees.

Isn't Lompoc right on the Pacific? (I drove through there once.)
I wonder how in the world it gets so cold there, while here 
in San Jose, what, 200 miles north, 20 miles from the Ocean 
it only went down to maybe 25F, curious.

>There is also a "Raphiolepis" called 'Majestic Beauty' which many
>believe to be an intergeneric hybrid (Raphiolepis x Eriobotrya).

Maybe some accomplished breeder will be able to  produce a
backcross with the delicious fruit of the Loquat but without
the obnoxiously heavy fragrance of the Loquat flowers.

>Loquat is one of my favorite multi-purpose landscape plants.

A section of our property, adjacent to a rather wild section of my
neighboor's property, is heavily infested with pocket
gophers (Thomomys sp.)  The gophers have destroyed small Eucalyptus,
Quercus, and even Agave americana, all usually pretty unpalatable
to the little devils. I had previously thought the only thing i could
practically grow there was Juniperus sp. and the algerian Hedera sp.
but having now other place to put it I put an Eriobotrya japonica seeding
there about 1 1/2 years ago, its now almost 2 m tall and
growing beautifully, even though I didn't bother to put it in a
galvanized steel 'chicken wire' basket.

karl.
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