Re: Rosemary
Medit. feel - lots of common sage and wild thyme, preferably where you pass
by.
On rosemary, if you want a hardy dark blue, darker than Mrs Jessop's upright
try Sissinghurst. There are also the R. rosea varities for contrast.
Rosemary - it must be in the TOP TEN medit plants. Any ideas anyone on the
other nine? Everyone else is picking their millenium list, so why don't we
in medit. plants?
Edward Faridany
Sussex, England. Dryish summers, wet mildish winters - 4C / 30 C
----- Original Message -----
From: georges-kiki <condor-kiki@village.uunet.be>
To: <tnottle@picknowl.com.au>; <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>;
<E.Pizzi@agora.stm.it>
Sent: 20 November 1999 21:18
Subject: Re: Rosemary
> I am growing a hedge of Rosemary 'Miss Jessup's Upright' which is about
6
> metres long and about 1.20 m high, which separates the sunny rock garden
> from what I call my mini-woodland ,(it's really not mini- but tiny). On
the
> sunny side it consists of all the medit-plants : salvia officinalis with
> small leaves (lots),all types of thyme, lavendula stoechas
> 'pappillon',helychrisum rosmarinifolius, phlomis 'caballero',everywhere
the
> purple annual allysum. etc,etc... On the "woodland-side I grow a
> Liquidambar, Laburnum x wateri ' Vossii', Philadelphus 'Belle
> Etoile',Viburnum Tinus ( different types), Robinia
> pseudacacia 'Tortuosa', pink hydrangeas and geranium 'Wargrave pink',
> Narcissus 'Tete a tete', and lots of primula veris.
> Coming back to the rosemary : this June I took lots of cuttings to make
the
> hedge thicker underneath. I am gardening near the coast in Belgium on
sandy
> soil, maximum frost about - 10 * C., my garden is small. What do you
think
> of this combination? I love the scents as much as the flowers. My aim is
to
> recreate the Mediterranean in the garden, with lots of rocks and gravel
> (dolomite) and different niveaus (levels). During the summer I put
> everywhere yucca's and agave americana's amidst the plants. Has anyone an
> idea what else I can do to recreate the Medit-feel?
> By the way, my husband is greek ,that explains a lot, :-) . In Octobre we
> travelled to Greece, where we visited the garden at Sparoza !
>
>
