Re: Medit-Plants Top Ten List

Unless I missed it, no-one seems to have mentioned Jacaranda
mimosaefolia.  Now as I think I've intimated here before, I'm not
overly enthusiastic about its colour, but there's no doubt about its
medit-style qualities and the avenues and roads of the South of
France, Spain, Portugal etc would not be quite the same without them.
Less obvious, but great favourites with me are Atlantic island
treasures such as Campanula vidalii from the Azores with its racemes
of waxy pink chalices and hard, glistening foliage and that supreme
ground orchid  - Dactylorrhiza foliosa (maderensis) from Madeira.
This latter I've recently re-acquired after 20 years of 'abstinence'.
A friend in Bristol is somewhat over-run with it and sent a dozen huge
tubers as a swap for rooted cuttings of Ipomoea indica!  I think I
know who got the better of that trade!  

Dave Poole
TORQUAY   UK
http://www.ilsham.demon.co.uk/gardenviews.html
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