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Posted by Spike z5 MA (My Page) on Fri, Jul 11, 03 at 13:32
| I hope this proves to be a useful addition!
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Thanks Spike, I am sure it will !
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- Posted by SDuarte Z10b PT/Europe (My Page) on
Fri, Jul 11, 03 at 17:00
| Great!!! Thank you very much Spike! Now People. Let's make this a great forum for all of us into medit plant growing. --smd/Lisbon/Portugal |
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| Great to see a site for Mediterranean gardening. I live in Cyprus and am frequently unsure of what (and how) to grow so I will be dropping in regularly for advice. |
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- Posted by Eduarda Z10 - Portugal (My Page) on
Fri, Jul 11, 03 at 17:35
| Glad to see this new forum too! Eduarda |
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Thanks, Spike, I live in California, but love Mediterranean gardening. A few years ago my Alma Mater planned a Mediterranean Botanical Garden, but the plans never materialized. Now I will have a place to check out
my ideas and get advice. This site will be very popular around the world. |
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- Posted by SoCal23 USDA10/Sunset23 (My Page) on
Fri, Jul 11, 03 at 21:52
| I do hope those of us in the Mediterranean climate areas of California, Chile, South Africa and South and Western Australia will be welcome as well. |
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Great Forum topic! Most of my designs include low-water-use (drip) irrigation and use "Med plants", although most come from South Africa, NZ and Australia. I learned a lot recently from a client (now a good friend) from South Africa about the origins of some of the botanical names and look forward to more here.
Good call, Spike. |
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| What a great idea! Living in So Cal's Med Climate I am often aware we plant "backwards" from most of the U.S., i.e. AUGUST/SEPTEMBER is our SPRING. Lived here for over 30 years, but having been raised in Connecticut, it still takes some getting use to! GREAT idea for us med gardeners! |
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| Wonderful idea,as this type of gardening is so relevant to south west Australia as well.So hard to get relevant information. So thanks Spike. |
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| Great idea! I've felt quite lonely for some time so now will have similar minded people to get ideas from. Anybody out there crazy about passiflora like me? I have about 30 different varieties and would love to exchange news, seeds etc. Also has anybody grown Rangoon Creeper (quisqualis indica) in the Med area? I have never seen it locally but feel it would do well. Hope the site is a blooming success. |
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- Posted by bahia SF Bay Area (My Page) on
Thu, Dec 11, 03 at 22:11
Cincinnata,
If you have a hot summer climate and don't get too cold in winter, you should be able to grow Rangoon Creeper, which is occasionally planted out in the warmest parts of southern California, but is too tender for San Francisco, and also grows poorly in cooler mediterranean climates such as ours, with its atypical mediterranean cooler foggy summers. This vine thrives with extreme heat, and I saw it growing quite happily in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as well as in tropical Singapore. In Riyadh it would cease growth in winter and often partially defoliate, but quickly bounced back after the relatively short 6 weeks of cooler winter weather,(it would occasionally freeze in Riyadh, but even in dead of winter it would warm up to shirt sleeve weather during the day, and Plumerias also did well there... I also like Passiflora, and am particularly fond of the hybrid P. 'Lavender Lady' which is almost always in bloom, and the giant deep magenta flowers of P. exoniensis, but this overwhelms a small garden. I also hope a California perspective will be welcome on this forum, as well as talking about subtropicals for mediterranean climate gardens. I wish I could get to Europe more often, and my travels in coastal/Adalucian Spain(Barcelona, Granada, Malaga, Seville and on into the Algarve and on up to Lisbon), and Italy(Lago Como and Lago Maggiore, Rome), and Greece(Crete and Santorini) are all treasured memories for me. The native vegetation is so familiar to a California yet different at the same time, and the sight of whole hillsides of blooming Phlomis species along with summer deciduous colored foliage of Euphorbia dendroides in mid May was a fascinating sight in Crete. We have nothing similar here in California, as our chaparral vegetation usually stays evergreen, or only gradually drops leaves, but never turning whole hillsides red and orange in early summer! It will be interesting to hear how familiar our most popular California natives are in the mediterranean basin. I suspect that more are grown in England than Greece, Italy or Spain. |
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