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The favorite ten plants in my former hillside Mediterranean garden, aside
from every rosemary, cistus and lavender, also turned into twenty plus:
                Achillea abrotanoides
                Aphyllanthes monspeliensis
                Bupleurum spinosum
                Calamintha cretica
                Campanula sartorii
                Crocus goulimyi
                Cyclamen creticum (and C. coum, C. libanoticum)
                Euphorbia acanthothamnos (and E. dendroides)
                Glaucium flavum
                Gynandiris sisyrinchium
                Iris pumila (and Iris graminea)
                Lithodora zahnii
                Onosma alborosea
                Origanum calcaratum
                Phlomis lychnitis
                Romulea bulbocodium
                Sternbergia sicula v.graeca
                Teucrium subspinosum (and T. polium, T. massiliense)
                Thymus x mastichina (and every other Thymus)
                Verbascum undulatum
             
Tom Chakas, Berkeley, California
               



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