Re: suggestions requested

I would suggest some of the smaller growing Carex spp.
Many Carex are happeist with plenty of water, and
there are some really nice small ones available.

Deborah Lindsay
Oakland, California
--- pkssreid <pkssreid@comcast.net> wrote:
> 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
> 


__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search
http://shopping.yahoo.com
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index