Re: Crete
Hello,
I just subscribed to the list and read the "Re: Crete" message. It seems
that the original message (or a message in the thread) lists fruit trees
that succeed in Crete.
I live in Pelloponese (southern Greece) and I am very interested in such a
topic. Is it possible that someone forwards me the previous email that lists
these fruit trees.
Thank you, kostas
----- Original Message -----
From: Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
To: Mediterannean Plants List <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 1:38 AM
Subject: Re: Crete
> Janet B wrote:
> >
> > Sean wrote
> >
> > > I am curious, Janet, what it is like living and gardening on Crete?
>
> > Sean
> >
> > We retired to Crete two years ago following 18 years as a specialist
plant
> > nursery in England. We are passionate gardeners, both plants and
organically
> > grown vegetables and wanted to have the time to indulge ourselves in
growing
> > both to the limit.
> >
> Janet
> I was just re-reading with great interest and pleasure your account of
> gardening in Crete, and thinking how similar the climate is to quite a
> few parts of my country.
>
> I found one striking omission in you list of fruits which flourish for
> you. Though you mention several ornamental species of Passiflora, you
> don't list P.edulis, which I feel would be perfectly suited to your
> conditions. Perhaps it was omitted inadvertantly or maybe you simply
> don't like the taste.
>
> It is enormously popular in NZ and even in my local area, which is a bit
> on the cold side for it in winter, people manage to grow it is sheltered
> spots against warm walls, but further north it is happy just about
> anywhere.
>
> Commercially it is marketed both as the fruit and also in the form of
> bottled pulp for dressing sponge cakes and and as one of the traditional
> toppings for our national dessert the Pavlova (a very superior variant
> of the humble meringue)
>
> Also a passionate gardener
>
> Moira
>
> Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
> Wainuiomata,
> New Zealand (astride the "Ring of Fire" in the SW Pacific).
>
