Re: cold, hardiness, and lies :)
- Subject: Re: cold, hardiness, and lies :)
- From: T* L*
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 09:04:35 +0100
Just to add a small and distant Amen to Barry's comments, both on the
specific hardiness of things such as Strelitzia reginae (I know a couple of
gardens in Cumbria in NW UK where it flourishes - and one of them is inland
and quite high and gets regular and more than minimal frosts) and on the
general notion that 'Maybe gardens can
incorporate both mediterranean ideas and andean plants?' To which the answer
is: You bet! Well, certainly mine does...
Which reminds me to add that Blepharocalyx cruckshankii, which Nick Turland
kindly ID-ed for me a couple of years ago (I'd originally acquired it under
one of its many aliases - I seem to remember as Temu divaricata), is still
doing well here - and didn't turn a hair during January's prolonged spell of
nights of mild frost. For anyone who likes myrtles and has a more Andean
than Mediterranean climate, a definite addition.
Tim
