Re: suggestions requested

Dear FFG,

How about one of the very dwarf daylilies or kniphofias?  All of my grasses
love water but it doesn't get so hot here in zone 23.  Perhaps Festuca
californica would do better than your F.'glauca' which comes from Europe and
tends to die out fast here.  There are beautiful blue forms of F.
californica.

Cathy

> From: "pkssreid" <pkssreid@comcast.net>
> Reply-To: pkssreid@comcast.net
> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 12:03:03 -0700
> To: <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
> Subject: suggestions requested
> 
> Greetings to the Collective Knowledge and Eager Help of Mediterranean
> Gardeners:
> 
> I am the Foothill Folsom Gardener who gets very hot summer temps. and very few
> freezes due to my hilltop, Sunset zone 9 location.  I need to replace a
> cluster of 5 Festuca glauca plants that I must move or lose.  For several
> years they have been struggling and gradually failing because of too much
> summer runoff water from the lawn's twice weekly watering and a nearby bed's
> once weekly watering on a different day.  It seems that it really would prefer
> a much drier summer space, and I have just the place for it where everything
> else I have put has died from too little summer water!  However, I need
> something very similar in size and form which can replace it.  It is fronting
> a low, rough rock bed border, so can't be too high, and since the space was
> just right for the Festuca, it needs to be no bigger than that 12-inch or so
> spread per plant.  Any suggestions that can take more summer water than
> Festuca?
> 
> Thanks a bunch,
> Karrie Reid
> Folsom Foothill Gardener
> Sunset zone 9
>
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