The Flourishing medit-plants

Sean you pillar of strength, a thousand apologies for not having been more communicative. I can only plead as an excuse that we are completely renovating the nursery which is fun but takes up a lot of time.
All the new additions to the web pages are most exciting - the net at it's best. I particularly like the plants section. If you can get them to do it, comments by members would now be very valuable since practical comments are not found in most of the books which go on talking about Miss Jessop's Upright, whereas noone has heard of it in the Med and there are any number of plants to be found here on the island just as upright.
    May I make some comments?
    1) Somewhere I found myself described as living in Greece instead of  Mallorca, Spain but I now can't find where it was.
    2) Each time I print out Rosemarys I go from black to red halfway down R. off. albus on page 1.
    3) What about having Member's Comments at say the end of the Plant Lists? For instance for Rosemary.....
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Comments on Rosemary cultivars by Hugo Latymer.   02/11/98
    Certainly on Mallorca the Rosemary is a very variable shrub, both in manner of growth and in colour of flower. I have found here upright and creeping varieties of  blue, pink and white and several other distinct forms such as small leaved or mounding. There is a graduation of flower colour between the brightest blue and  washed out pale blue.  The creepers often are completely pendulous if  planted in the top or sides of a wall.
    The most widely traded form here in Spain would seem to be a good blue with a rather upright form of growth that does well as a low hedge. So far R. Corsicus Prostratus seems to me to have most future as a carpeter - its a beautiful very bright blue. The pinks are weaker than the whites in general and I cannot see much difference between <de Noailles> < officinalis Pink>, <Majorca Pink> and our own pink found here. We have clean whites quite strong growing but medium sized in upright and hanging forms, locally found. The difficulties here are compounded by nothing in commerce being given more distinction than a <repens> or a <hybrida>
                                                    Hugo Latymer
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    If you could get anyone else to contribute in a growers vein rather than a taxonomical one I would have thought it useful and not obtainable in any book.
 
I have a collection of close to 20 cultivars of Lavandula to asess performance. I will let you know as soon as anything useful comes of that too.
    Congratulations for the edifice you are building so expertly. It begins to look like Karnak!
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