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hedges & screens from native shrubs & trees

>Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 14:46:52 -0800
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>From: "Michael D. Barclay" <opga1@dsp.net>
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>>Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 13:37:18 -0800
>>To: X-POP3-Rcpt: opga1@dsp
>>Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 12:35:16 -0400
>>Reply-To: E_Rowe@compuserve.com
>>Sender: owner-medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
>>From: Eric Rowe/Fr <E_Rowe@compuserve.com>
>>To: Med climate <Medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
>>Subject: re:Shadyspot - Rhamnus alerternus
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>><<My most successful choice to date for this type of problem is
>>Rhamnus alaternus,>>
>>That happens to be one of the more typical shrubs of the garrigue, here,
>>but I've never had the luck to get nurseries to stock it - it's regarded as
>>scrub!  I'd reccommend it to anyone in a Med climate.  Don't bother to
>>water; don't bother with much soil, it'll grow from a crack in the rock!
>>Another bush for hedges thet grows here is Phillyrea (latifolia for
>>lime,angustifolia for acid) has similar needs to Alaterne, but greyer
>>leaves.  Gives a marbled effect when the two are mixed together in a
>>clipped hedge.  Glad to hear, Sean, that  Alaterne is appreciated somewhere
>>in the world,
>> Eric
>>From: "Michael D. Barclay" <opga1@dsp.net>
>>Subject: rhamnus & other natives
>>Cc: <Medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
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>>TO ALL CALIFORNIA MEDIT-PLANTERS and those overseas where this information
>>might prove valuable.  The Theodore Payne Foundation, 10459 Tuxford St.
>>Sun Valley, CA 91352 (propabaly now has web site) specializes in exactly
>>the
>>kinds of plants Eric Rowe expressed support of and interest
>>in...California native shrubs, trees & wildflowers.  I was last there
>>with Jana Olson-Dobrinsky in 1990-91 and she was in heaven after two
>>weeks of exotics with Marcia
>>Donahue and me.
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>>Here are some screening plants from their catalogue back then:
>>Alnus rhombifolia
>>huge list of manzanita species - I saw a gorgeous screen of A. canescens and
>>another of Dr. Hurd.
>>Fouquiera splendens-hot and arid
>>**Prunus illicifolia
>>Rhamnus californica; R.c. 'Sea View'; R. croce ilicifolia
>>Heteromeles arbutifolia
>>Hope this is of some us to someone out there!
>>[Michael D. Barclay] "The Wizard" opga1@dsp.net
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