Re: Plant people
- Subject: Re: Plant people
- From: M* &* A* G*
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 23:21:45 +0200
(snip) and lastly Eugenia
myrtifolia, rampant against a portal to the herbarium/admin building. I
can't find any reference to this other than a similar synonym to E. foetida
(Spanish Stopper).
In all a highly educational trip but due to the additional qualities of the
gardens visited a very relaxing one too.
kind regards,
Mark Brent, Lamorran Gardens, St. Mawes, Cornwall.
Mark,
I'm glad you enjoyed a trip to my adoptive country!
A local nurseryman suggested I try out Eugenia myrtifolia for the shadier side of the house beneath
some fairly tall olives,
where the previous owner had planted some very sad looking now whitish-leaved Oleanders and some
mesembryanthemum,
neither of which needless to say flourished.
After I brought home a Eugenia myrtifolia plant to try it out and see whether it keeps looking OK
through the winter there, I
thought I'd try and find out something more about the plant, but I have hardly been able to find out
anything - no-one's talked
about it on this list (except for a slightly disparaging reference to Eugenias being oh-so-common in
California, though I don't
know what species). Even the RHS Dictionary of Plants doesn't mention it, nor does Heidi
Gildemeister's drought-tolerant
plant book. Has anyone got much experience of the plant or is my nurseryman a real trend-setter? Do
you think it'll work in
some fairly heavily dappled shade in zone 9-10?
Anthony
Torre a Mare, Bari, on the Adriatic coast of Italy
