Dampiera diversifolia
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Dampiera diversifolia
- From: t*@eddy.u-net.com (Tim Longville)
- Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 09:36:33 GMT
Belated footnote to this thread but perhaps worth adding since I'm one
of the probably few people who actually grows it. In garden terms,
it's pleasant, shyly charming, rather than striking. Foliage small and
fine, like a dishevelled thinning hairdo. Growth almost completely
prostrate making (so far) a mat about 12" square. Flowers, though, are
good: a decent size given that it's a small plant and a deep rich blue
and produced if not profusely then at least in very respectable
quantities. For a scree or planted wall or small trough rather than
the open garden, perhaps - where it would just tend to get lost. In a
sunny well-drained scree here it survives mild winters but not hard
ones. I.e., it'll stand a degree or two of frost, even in my damp
climate, but not much more than that (tho' it might well survive more
cold in a place which was both hotter and drier). It doesn't set seed
here but comes from cuttings - not easily, but it comes.
Tim on the sunny but cool Solway Coast of Cumbria UK
Nan: Has anyone answered your query about the obscure Phlomis? I've
been away a lot recently and only intermittently looking at messages.
I assumed Jim Mann Taylor would still be listening in and would
respond but if he hasn't I'll look it up in his book on the genus
(which is on the shelves here SOMEwhere but memory tells me it doesn't
have a lettered spine so...!) and send whatever info. he offers.
Tim Longville
