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Fwd: Re(2): Garden design magazine and Mimulus aurantiacus

lyn@anchor.engr.sgi.com,Internet writes:
>From: lyn@anchor.engr.sgi.com (Lyn Dearborn)
>Subject: Re: Garden design magazine and Mimulus aurantiacus
>Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 16:30:11 -0700 (PDT)

>Its interesting to just hear/see someone who has actually "noticed" the 
>lowly Coffee Berry bush ... also interesting to hear "yours" are about
>6ft
>high... The ones up in Lassen Co. were I spotted a LOT of seeds were
>about
>3 to 4 ft high... & I'm ashamed to admit that I don't remember their
>color, 
>etc... I'll have to call my friend who lives there (& was collecting
>them)
>and ask her more about "using" them.

They were indeed rare finds to see one that high. Deeper into the
chapparal theyre usually lower (the ones i picked berried from were
growing near the road so they may be getting more water than their
counterparts more inland). I wonder why the coffee berry isnt grown
more. Its a very beautiful bush, nice matte deep green leaves,
beautiful form, interesting fruit, and its spineless. I think they
would make lovely additions to any garden, but i guess since theyre not
"the in thing" theyre rarely heard about.

>>I was walking around the "Watershed Institute" at my school and in

>Where, exactly, is this school ... I had heard a "new college" was
>being 
>built down there, but never got the details on it.  I have a very
>"sweet"
>friend down there named Linda Yamane ... she lives in Seaside, is a
>wonderful
>artists, and does some work with schools in the order of Native American
>Material Culture ... you MIGHT want to contact her. Amazing woman!

My school, California State University Monterey Bay is located on the
Former Ft. Ord.  Its real easy to spot since they paint the buildings
bright colors. Brightens up rather architecturally unstimulating
buildings. Your friend may have worked with the Watershed Institute
because they had some sort of basket weaving program they worked with.
I know they were growing cattails so native artists could collect the
rhizomes for their baskets.
The Watershed Institute also grows native plants from seeds they
collect to help re colonize damaged areas out on the former Ft. Such
areas are road scars that were turning into gullies,  things like that.
The most impressive project was they helped to fix a very deep gully
(about 30 feet deep!) by placing hay bales in to catch the mud and sand
that was getting washed into it. They filled about 20 feet back up in
just two years. The most impressive sight was all the land that started
to crack and slump into the gully. It was there where i saw these trees
that they say are related to coffee plants. They also used Coyote bush
to help keep the slumping areas together, sort of like living sutures.



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