Re: Plant people and plants in Lady Walton's Garden

>  > The plants, well my notebook is still being
>>  translated from a mass of
>>  illegible and excitable scribbles but several things
>>  leap to mind.
>>  Probably the greatest shock
>>  came when admiring a bank of Russelia equisetiformis
>>  (v. good looking white
>>  form too) from which emerged a rather healthy Iguana
>>  - clearly considerable
>>  competition to the local lizards. Was it a Delonix
>>  regia I saw?
>
>Yes I do think they can get Delonix regia to grow and
>bloom there, as it is also just possible here in
>warmer inland parts of southern California and the
>desert areas around Palm Springs.  They can take brief
>periods of cold, and seem to much prefer desert heat
>to our cooler coastal fog.  They were much used in the
>high desert around Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and would
>bounce back from the brief occasional freezes they
>would get there.
>

I've never seen any flowering Delonix regia in Southern California 
inland areas or in Palm Springs, but perhaps I never happened to 
drive past where they were growing when in bloom. However, I've seen 
a number of trees of it blooming in the small fishing town of San 
Felipe, Baja California, south of Yuma, Arizona on the coast of the 
Sea of Cortez. Three or four years ago I gave my aunt and uncle a 
couple of seedlings of it to plant on the vacation property they have 
down there that they have a 99-year lease on. So far they are growing 
quite well. It gets quite hot in the summertime, and is rather cool 
in the winter. But I don't  know how often they get freezing weather 
of any kind, if at all. Mango trees seem to do just fine there as 
well. (However, on the way back from lunch today by a different 
route, I was surprised to see a healthy looking approx. 15-20 foot 
tall mango tree in the middle of someone's yard here in Pasadena!)

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--Lee Poulsen
Pasadena area, California, USDA Zone 9-10
wlp@radar-sci.jpl.nasa.gov
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