Fw: "Subshrub"
- Subject: Fw: "Subshrub"
- From: R* F*
- Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 16:16:24 -0700
I see this term used frequently and would think the very name would tell you
what it means, even if you'd never heard it before. :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Seals" <gardenguru@yahoo.com>
To: "Mediterranean Plant Forum" <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 4:19 PM
Subject: "Subshrub"
> In my last post, I was made to realilze that I used a
> term with which many gardeners aren't familiar.
>
> It's "subshrub".
>
> I'm sure it's not a botanical appropriate term but
> it's a term I found probably coined by an old
> horticulturist whose name I can't remember.
>
> It was his way of distinquishing those mostly smaller
> plants which develop a somewhat woody base for us here
> in California but not for those in more northerly
> climes.
>
> For example, Leonotis, most Lavandula, Cuphea, etc.
>
> Others may call the smaller of these "shrublets".
>
> Has anyone else bumped into this and can add to the
> philosophical connotation?
>
> Joe
>
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> Joe Seals
> Santa Maria, California --
> where the weather is always perfect
> and my garden always has something blooming
> and birds galore
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