Re: Was re: Oleander, now best and worse
Oh Susannah, I am hurt about the photinia. I quite like the cute little
sprays of cream flowers and their coppery coloring habit that matches so
nicely (in an offhand way) with clay pots-if the davidii is the one I have.
And the fact that they need no care scores big with me, too.
My own pet peeve is a tree I don't even know the name of...maybe someone out
there knows. It is a shorter, conical fast-growing evergreen thing commonly
used as a street tree here in Athens. It has a revolting greenish tinge to
its trunk and limbs and an abundance of ghastly blackish seed pods which have
irritating-to-sensitive-skin fibers inside. The leaves have three points I
think, and if the tree were deciduous, it would possibly look even worse.
The features I hate the most is the tapering trunk and the lollipop look of
it. Yuck ick. Get the chainsaw!
Karen
susannah@cyber-dyne.com wrote:
> "Best"
> Santolina rosmarinifolia
> Artemisia chamaelifolia
> Claytonia siberica
> Callirhoe involucrata
> ....and, of course, tulips and crocuses!
>
> "Worst":
> Photinia davidii
> (It seems we each, so far, can only think of ONE plant for this list, and
> each one a different one. I suppose we all have our pet peeves...)
