ANYBODY Re: Ontario-- Stone Wall----Ideas

Thanks Nan,
I cannot grow any of the suggested as perennials.
Rosemary merely exists in a pot over the winter.
Is there anyone out there in a comparable zone?
NewYork, Ithica perhaps?
Just looking for ideas that might look good from the
road.
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Have recently completed a stone wall across the front of our house.
It is 5 1/2' high x 26' wide (or more) and is 8' deep at one end and 5' deep
at the other.
The area has a filtered  E. x  SE. exposure .
Had originally considered hostas, brunneras(silver leaf ), Dicentra
spectabilis
alba, Mertensia virginica and various campanulas to hang over the edge.
Upon reflection it occurred to me that the only way to view this garden was
from the living room window. Hmmph.
I am looking for a plan B if there are any ideas out there, I would
appreciate the in-put.
Thank you.
Siberian iris (pale blue-no name), just opened yesterday in our heat of 32
c.
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Subject: Re: Ontario-- Stone Wall----Ideas


> Well, Ronnalee, I don't know whether I could be terribly helpful to
> you - I live in a Mediterranean climate where we get about 250 cm or
> rain PER YEAR, all between November and early March.  Summers are
> hot, winters are mild.  We plant succulents into walls, cascading
> lotus, westringia (a small shrub) trained to hang down over walls,
> prostrate rosemary, and other low water plants from the other
> Mediterranean climates (the Mediterranean basin, coastal California,
> coast of Chile, parts of Southern Africa, and parts of Australia)
>
> Can you grow any of these?
>
> Nan
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> >Good Morning Nan,
> >Wiarton is on the Bruce  Peninsula, between Georgian Bay
> >and Lake Huron, in Ontario, Canada.
> >
> >It is coolish here today, under 60 at the moment and going down
> >to 6 overnight.
> >
> >The 33 ish  degrees the other day was out of the normal range for this
> >time of year, which is usually  high 22 and low 9 overnight.
> >
> >91 cm. of rain came down over the last holiday weekend.
> >Flowers have loved this cool wet spring we have had.
> >
> >Any suggestions for the wall, Nan, would be appreciated.
> >Thanks
> >>  >Ronnalee in Wiarton
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >  > Where is Wiarton?
> >
>
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> Nan Sterman Plant Soup (TM)
> PO Box 231034
> Encinitas, CA 92023 760.634.2902 (voice)
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