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hedges/ screens

>Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 14:48:13 -0800
>To: owner-medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
>From: "Michael D. Barclay" <opga1@dsp.net>
>Subject: hedges & screens from native shrubs & trees
>Cc: owner-medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
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>>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
>>>MIME-Version: 1.0
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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.
>>>
>>>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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