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>Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 15:47:31 -0800
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>From: "Michael D. Barclay" <opga1@dsp.net>
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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
>>>
>>>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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