medit's top ten
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: medit's top ten
- From: M* B*
- Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 16:45:40 -0700
Dear Listers, 11/28/99
I missed the initiation of this subject as a thread though I
did see a post from a KIZMIZE in Stockton listing "his" (?) top
10. I have designed many Mediterranean gardens in the San Francisco
Bay Area over the past 20 years and these are genera that have
been prominently included:
1) CISTUS: C. x aguilari, ladanifer, 'Sunset', 'Blanche', palhinhae,
albidus, laurifolius, salvifolius
2) Pacific Coast Iris hybrids: especially 'Canyon Snow' and
'Red Improved'
3 OLEARIA: many spp. and hybrids especially x haastii, macrodonta,
insignis (difficult)
4) annual tulip viridiflora 'Angel White'
5) ANEMONE: A. blanda (blue shades), sylvestris, nemerosa, japonica
hybrids, magellanica
6) PRIMULA: P. vulgaris, juliane,
7) GERANIUM: G. riversleaianum 'Mavis Simpson' & 'Russell Pritchard,
x cantabrigiense 'Biokovo', 'Buxton's Variety'
8) SOLANUM jasminoides
9) Clematis x jackmanii
10) Rose 'Marie Pavie', a 19th C. everblooming polyantha, mutabilis,
'Sombreuil', 'Alister Stella Gray' rambler
11) Rosmarinus 'Tuscan Blue' and 'Irene'
12) Stipa tenuissima, gigantea
13) Arundinaria viridi-striata
14) Rhododendron 'Ramapo'
15) Helictotrichon sempervirens
16) Crocosmia 'Solfaterre'
17) Dahlia imperialis (single lilac-pink)
18) Grevillea varieties, especially 'Long John'
19) Abutilon hybrids: especially 'Nabob', 'Seashell' & 'Barclay's
Creamsicle', 'Victor's Folly', 'Barclay's Pink'
20) Artemisia 'Powys Castle'
21) Aster x frikartii 'Moench, 'Little Carlow'
22) Linaria purpurea 'Canon J. Went'
23) Viburnum davidii
24) Berberis thunbergii 'Crimson Velvet', 'Atropurpurea Nana',
'Rose Glow'
25) Buddleia lindleyana
26) Camellia transnokoensis, sasanqua vars, granthamiana
27) Carpenteria californica
28) Cestrum elegans, nocturnum
29) Convolvulus mauritanicus (sebatius)
30) Daphne odora
Cheers!
Michael D. Barclay
Really Special Plants & Gardens, Kensington, CA
Cal Hort Council opga@wenet.net Growing 2,000 species of plants
15 miles from the Golden Gate. ARS Speakers Bureau lecturer.
