R: What do gardeners think?
- Subject: R: What do gardeners think?
- From: h*@tin.it
- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 20:33:15 +0200
Hello to all of you from Rome!
We have had a summer of relentless torrid heat and the previsions are that
16% of Europe risks desertification, so perhaps all our thoughts on what to
be planting must change.
Just out, or perhaps to be released in the next few days is FLORA, an
encyclopedia of 20,000 plants from all over the world, written by 167
competent authors and completely illustrated. This book, in 2 volumns,
should save gardeners headaches in the future, and the key with it is
climatic zones of the entire world.
Anyone gardening in the Mediterranean area, with all its microclimates,
wherever in the world you are, should put it on your Christmas list - and be
very good until Dec. 25th, to be sure Santa will bring it..
Global is the Australian publisher and Timber Press in the USA.
Best wishes from a COOL Rome today of 82°F,
Helene Pizzi
----- Original Message -----
From: Vavourakis <akvav@hol.gr>
To: <nsterman@plantsoup.com>
Cc: <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 8:49 AM
Subject: Re: What do gardeners think?
> Dear Nan and Fellow Gardeners (common or uncommon!)
>
> The Mediterranean Garden Society classifies the following areas as
> sharing a similar "Mediterranean" climate: the Mediterranean region as
> well as much of California, Chile, Australia, and South Africa. This was
> surprising to me when I first joined the society, but definitely
> explained why I was stuffing MGS journals into envelopes to all of those
> places! Of course there are many microclimates within our Mediterranean
> zones, but the common denominator seems to be a long, hot dry summer with
> a rainy winter season where temps do not persist under freezing for more
> than a few days in a row (plus alkaline soil, I expect.) I am
> definitely an amateur here, so if I'm inaccurate I hope someone will
> jump in to correct!
>
> Karen V.-Greece
>
> Nan Sterman wrote:
>
> > I have a question about perceptions and misperceptions of the
> > "common" gardener in California.
> >
> > When you interact with folks who are "common" gardeners (please
> > forgive the terminology but you know what I mean), what kind of
> > climate zone do they think we are in? i.e. I often meet people who
> > think California, especially So Cal, has a tropical climate. What do
> > you hear most often?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Nan
> >
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