Newly bought plants
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- Subject: Newly bought plants
- From: E* f*
- Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 13:33:09 +0100
Hello Barbara and Barb,
Thanks for your help. Barbara, I also live in Surrey, at Horley down near
Gatwick Airport. If you've got sandy soil, I should think you are to the
north or west of me. Most of the soils around here are heavy Wealden clay
but we have beautiful soil in our garden, a lovely loam. I think it's had
100 years of being fed and looked after by the previous occupants of the
house. I might have problems with that Euphorbia Fireglow but I shall give
it a go because I love it wherever I see it.
Louise English in southern England
>Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 00:06:14 +0100
>From: "Barbara Barklem" <barbara.barklem@virgin.net>
>Subject: Re: Newly bought plants
>
>Hi Louise
>
>How nice to hear from another Brit on this list - I'm afraid I mainly lurk,
>but enjoy the different gardening experiences. Dixter is a wonderful garden.
>I've been several times, but wish I could get there more often.
>
>As far as your plants are concerned, I would say that the helianthemum needs
>sun and good drainage -typical Mediterranean conditions.The fuchsia can take
>some shade, but won't be too fussy. It may be cut down to the ground in
>winter, but should shoot again. Euphorbia shillingii is a good plant, clump
>forming and even in my sandy soil it isn't a thug at all. I have it in
>partial shade and it seems quite happy. 'Fireglow' has a reputation as a
>thug, but I've managed to kill it several times so far. I think it may need
>more moisture than I can easily provide.The thermopsis has, if I remember
>rightly, yellow lupin-like flowers, but I'm afraid I don't know about
>cultivation without a book to hand and the Isoplexis is new to me.
>
>I hope this is some help
>
>Barbara Barklem
>Surrey, UK.
>
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>
>Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 22:36:36 -0500
>From: Barb Pernacciaro <bpern@idcnet.com>
>Subject: Re: Newly bought plants
>
>I had never heard of Isoplexis either (sounds like an exercise regime),
but my
>Taylor's Encyclopedia of Gardening has this to say:
>
>"Two undershrubs from the Canary Islands, of the family Scrophulariaceae,
their
>outdoor cultivation confined to Calif. or similar climates. Leaves alternate,
>usually thick and persistent. Flowers yellow, mostly in a dense, terminal
>raceme. Corolla tubular, two-lipped, the upper and lower lips of about equal
>size. Stamens 4, slightly protruding. The plants are closely related the the
>perennial form of the foxglove.
>
>canariensis. A stiff, erect plant 3-4 ft. high, the leaves thick,
lance-shaped,
>4-6 in. long. Flower cluster nearly 12 in. long, the flowers about 1 in.
long,
>yellowish-brown.
>
>sceptrum. resembling the former, but the leaves are larger, the flowers
>drooping, and the corolla not 2-lipped, its 5 lobes nearly equal."
>
>Sounds interesting - when does it bloom? Let us know.
>- --
>Barb P.
>SE Wisconsin, Zone 4
>
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