Re: Plants in sand?
- Subject: Re: Plants in sand?
- From: B* G*
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 13:39:50 -0700
gardenguru@yahoo.com writes:
>Coincidently, I'm looking for any and all ornamental
>plants that will do well on beach sand or seashore
>dune sand. If you, or anyone else in this forum,
>happens to have some favorites for planting in such
>conditions, I'd like to hear about them.
Well......i grow everything in sand here (my town was built upon chapparal
stabilized sand dunes). You might already have the few i suggest, but i
always liked the yellow flowered bush lupines (Lupinus arboreus). I've
seen some very healthy and beautiful ones at Aņo Nuevo state beach,
growing in pure sand. I also like Abronia latifolia and A.
umbellata...Sunset says both are great for stabilizing sand, and look
quite nice....i suppose with a little more water than they naturally get,
they'd be a bit lusher than i usually see them. Both are pretty common in
the restored dunes around the Monterey Bay.
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