Re: windbreaks for the Santa Clara Valley (was Re: Dodonaea viscosa)

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• To: "m*@ucdavis.edu I" <m*@ucdavis.edu>
• Subject: Re: windbreaks for the Santa Clara Valley (was Re: Dodonaea viscosa)
• From: J* S* <j*@earthlink.net>
• Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 16:53:45 -0700
• References: <3.0.3.32.19980911144842.00697da0@popserv.ucop.edu>

I agree whole heartedly with Sean O. about the virtues of Rhamnus
alaternus (we call Italian Buckthorn) as a pioneer plant for a garden
with hot, dry conditions. I saw it used in several Provence gardens as a
windbreak and hedge. Sometimes it was tightly sheared into a tight tall
hedge and sometimes planted with Phillyrea latifolia, and the both of
them sheared together. 
	Another maquis native, I fell for in gardens there was Pistacia
lentiscus. Shaped and pruned, it makes an elegant (tough and DT) shrub.
Both of these are in Heidi Gildmeister's wonderful book, Mediterranean
Gardening. 
	So as soon as I got home, I tried to look (in catalogues & on the web)
for Phillyrea latifolia and Pistacia lentiscus. Alas, nobody here grows
either one. I guess gardening really IS "regional"! 
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Jan Smithen,               gardening teacher 
                           California Arboretum Foundation
jansmithen@earthlink.net
Sunset zone : 19
USDA zone : 10

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