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>Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 15:47:09 -0800
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>From: "Michael D. Barclay" <opga1@dsp.net>
>Subject: long blooming cistus, viburnum soc, cistaceous soc
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>>Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 12:27:32 -0800
>>To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
>>From: "Michael D. Barclay" <opga1@dsp.net>
>>Subject: long blooming cistus, viburnum soc, cistaceous soc
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>>Hi Medit-Planters!			5 Oct. 1997
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>>Ken Montgomery (Anderson Valley Nursery, Boonville, CA) and I have several
>>times talked about starting a Cistaceous Society but life is so crazy.
>>Sharon Osmond, a fine designer and viburnum afficianado and I have often
>>spoken of a Viburnum Society.  Talk is cheap and plant societies take so much
>>time to administer.  Is there a Bay SArea person ou there with similar
>>interests
>>who is not so overburdened who'd be interested in hosting a first meeting
>>and being an officer the first year?  I'm all ears!
>>
>>Back in July Karen Whitehead asked about long blooming cistus and I've been
>>meaning to answer all this time as I have grown so many species and hybrids:
>>In my garden, Zone n9 Berkeley CA  Sunset Zone 16-17  low temp 19F
>>the following have been the longest blooming cistus:
>>1) 'Sunset'  this shocking pink hybrid (natyural?) blooms every day of the
>>year, heaviest in early spring and early winter.  It has a strong
>>constitution
>>and lives many years.  It also comes true from seed.
>>2) C. 'skanbergii' is certainly next in line and a favorite with small soft
>>salmon-pink flowers.  It flowers on and off all year, on at least 6 or 7
>>months.
>>It stays relatively small and is charming.
>>3) C 'maculatus' often sold as ladanifer is a long and heavy bloomer with
>>beautiful leaves redolent with volatile oils.  The leaves are sticky.
>>The flowers look like washed out ladanifers which shrunk in the laundry
>>but it
>>is still a valuable plant.
>>4) C 'purpureus' is a harsh purple/pink large plants witha long bloom period
>>which really turns heads in mass plantings.
>>
>>The worst bloomers have the best flowers (largest, prettiest)
>>1) C. palhinae  huge white cup shaped blooms of a warm tone and unmarked
>>blooms at most a few weeks
>>2) C X ARGUILLARI (SOLD AS C. 'BLANCHE' AT WESTERN HILLS FOR YEARS has
>>gorgeous
>>undulkating leaves, gets huge and several times a year blooms heavily
>>with huge
>>white flowers only slightly smaller than palinhae.
>>3) ladanifer blooms for a few days a few times but has the largest and most
>>exciting flowers.
>>4) salvifolius var. prostratus.  Though only a few weeks in bloom in
>>early spring this species covers itself with small flat white flowers and
>>looks likes drifts of snow.  The rest of the year it doesnt amount to
>>much.
>>5)Halimium atriplicifolium-This shining white leaved shrub blooms for 10
>>or 12 days at a time, 2 or 3 times a year with screaming yellowm unmarked
>>blooms.
>>Exciting but painful unless carefully sited.
>>Phew I didn;'t realize i had so much to say about cistus.
>>Enjoy, you'all
>>The Wizard aka opga1@dsp.net (Michael d. Barclay)
>>
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