Re: low-maintenance plants
- Subject: Re: low-maintenance plants
- From: P* B*
- Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 08:12:35 -0700
- Disposition-notification-to: "Phil Bunch"
I'd have to vote for olive trees and toyon plus some cool season
active mesembs at least for where I live.
Phil Bunch
Lemon Grove, California
32:44:00N 117:01:58W
540 feet (164 meters) amsl
USDA Zone 10a
Sunset Zone 23
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Seals" <gardenguru@yahoo.com>
To: <nsterman@plantsoup.com>; "Mediterranean Plant Forum"
<medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 07:44
Subject: Re: low-maintenance plants
> Of course, it wasn't long after I posted my request
> for "low-maintenance" plants that I realized I was
> preaching to the choir.
>
> I suspect that in addition to having strong botanical
> inclinations, most of the members of this forum/group
> garden with "Mediterranean" plants because they are,
> as a group, low-maintenance.
>
> So, let me challenge you all.
>
> Tell me what you think is the absolute "ultimate" in
> low maintenance in your garden. The creme d'la creme,
> the truly cast iron and neglectful, the plants that
> wuld thrive and look good even if you completely
> walked away for two years.
>
> Am I asking too much?
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
> --- Nan Sterman <nsterman@plantsoup.com> wrote:
> > I nominate my entire front yard landscape. Heavy on
> > the aloes,
> > grevilleas, bulbinella, pelargonium sidoides, lots
> > of sedums,
> > grasses, dymondia, palo verde, melianthus major,
> > anigozanthus, this
> > cool plant called manfreda (in bloom now and
> > spectacular), geranium
> > madarense, cistus, many south african bulbs,
> > salvias, achillea
> > tomentosa,. I'll have to do an inventory to see
> > what else there
> > is....
> >
> > Nan
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> >
> > Nan Sterman Plant Soup (TM)
> >
> > 205 Cole Ranch Road
> > Olivenhain, CA 92024 760.634.2902 (voice)
> > NSterman@PlantSoup.Com 760.634.2957 (fax)
> >
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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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