Re: First Rains and Early Fall bloomers
- Subject: Re: First Rains and Early Fall bloomers
- From: d* f*
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 14:36:25 -0800 (PST)
--- Anthony Lyman-Dixon
<lyman@lyman-dixon.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
And
> the Colquhounia which sometimes manages a manky
> little flower at the base of the branches, has this
> year been a blaze of crimson. So what's gone right?>
Anthony,
I am also trying this one for the first time, after
seeing it at Annie's Annuals, and getting a personal
recommendation on it as being a must have plant.
Having yet to see it bloom, I am rather unimpressed
with the look of the foliage here in the SF Bay Area,
it seems to take on the look of something with leaf
tip burn in a container, both in my garden where I
have yet to get it into the ground for lack of space,
and at all the nurseries where I have seen it. In my
own garden, I can understand, as I do miss the
occasional watering, and it may be that it resents
stress, but it appears that it really prefers a wetter
climate. The blooms do appear worth waiting for, but
I am unsure if they last all that long. Somehow a big
gangly shrub which is temperamental and short blooming
doesn't thrill me, but then Annie Hayes did recommend
it, so I must wait and see...
Your single olive story is amusing, homeowners in the
Bay Area are being advised to watch out for a new
mediterranean olive fruit fly which can ruin the fruit
for the oil, after it seems that olives are being
promoted heavily lately for home pressed oil. I love
to eat dishes with olive oil, but can't see wasting
the space on something which prefers it much hotter
and drier than Berkeley/San Francisco. They look so
much better in Crete!
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