Re: OLEANDERS

Hello everyone
 
I have been absent again for a while, but would like to agree with Helene on the subject of Oleanders.From early summer and right through the heat of the season the Oleanders are a joy along our dusty roads.
 
In the garden we have lower growing cutivars, different colours and flower shapes. Also the ones we grow are fragrant so a hedge of them along a narrow walk to our back door is pleasing to both sight and smell.
 
To be loved maybe like all plants and shrubs they must be in the right place, have the right conditions and fulfil their task, which ours do.
 
I would put them pretty high on my 'loved' list.
 
regards to all
 
Janet B
 
Janet Blenkinship
Crete, Greece
 
What is this life if, full of care,
we have no time to stand and stare.
William henry Davies 
----- Original Message -----
From: h*@tin.it
To: m*@ucdavis.edu
Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 4:22 PM
Subject: OLEANDERS

What a pity so many of us have oleanders on our hate lists.  Perhaps it is because they have not been to Rome in July and August.  Hundreds of these easy-care very neglected city landscape plants suddenly burst into bloom.  They bring cheer to a city baking in searing heat and do not mind the pollution.  The 'autostrada' which follows the coast up to France (and other superhighways too) has oleanders as highway dividers and they certainly add beauty to the scenery.
 
Could it be that as these plants are easily grown in Mediterranean climates and 'common' that they are not much considered...  
 
From what I have heard, there are many more varieties and colors here in Italy, perhaps this makes them more interesting here...but if you ever are walking along the Tiber river in July, look down on the area where the temple of the vestal virgins and the temple of virile fortume planted with oleanders that wave as the traffic swishes by.    You will have a change of heart.
 
Helene  
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