Comments on: some garden ceanothus http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2009/05/04/some-garden-ceanothus/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:51:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: News from www.HortiTrends.com – Pat Fitzgerald successfully using social media tools to promote MyPlant range and FitzGerald Nurseries at home and abroad « HorticultureTrends's Blog http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2009/05/04/some-garden-ceanothus/comment-page-1/#comment-4602 News from www.HortiTrends.com – Pat Fitzgerald successfully using social media tools to promote MyPlant range and FitzGerald Nurseries at home and abroad « HorticultureTrends's Blog Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:03:41 +0000 http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/?p=5480#comment-4602 [...] http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2009/05/04/some-garden-ceanothus/ [...] […] http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2009/05/04/some-garden-ceanothus/ […]

]]> By: PatFitzGerald http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2009/05/04/some-garden-ceanothus/comment-page-1/#comment-3608 PatFitzGerald Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:18:25 +0000 http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/?p=5480#comment-3608 I am glad to see my Ceanothus Tuxedo shared with all you folk in California. I really hope it does well there and I know its not pure pure native but it is all American native in East meets west style. For what its worth it seems to thrive much better in your glorius California sun than it does under our grey clouded land here. It grows very well here but the colour depth it reaches in California tells me its happiest there. I hope it adds to your garden tapestry. Thank you for highlighting this plant. Pat FitzGerald. I am glad to see my Ceanothus Tuxedo shared with all you folk in California. I really hope it does well there and I know its not pure pure native but it is all American native in East meets west style. For what its worth it seems to thrive much better in your glorius California sun than it does under our grey clouded land here. It grows very well here but the colour depth it reaches in California tells me its happiest there.
I hope it adds to your garden tapestry.
Thank you for highlighting this plant.

Pat FitzGerald.

]]> By: [ Lost in the Landscape ] » looking like spring again http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2009/05/04/some-garden-ceanothus/comment-page-1/#comment-3512 [ Lost in the Landscape ] » looking like spring again Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:30:58 +0000 http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/?p=5480#comment-3512 [...] Another seasonally confused plant is this groundcover ceanothus. I’m only slowly now coming around to this genus. Groundcover versions like you see in the Burger King parking lot (think C. griseus ‘Yankee Point’) were all I saw for decades, but I’ve been trying to pay more attention to what other ceanothus have to offer. This one, unfortunately, is one of the Burger King-type varieties: low, flat, green all year on a low-to-moderate amount of water. It’s so inert and emphatically green it reminds me of plastic. I may never come to love this type, but fortunately there are other plants in the genus that do very different things. [...] […] Another seasonally confused plant is this groundcover ceanothus. I’m only slowly now coming around to this genus. Groundcover versions like you see in the Burger King parking lot (think C. griseus ‘Yankee Point’) were all I saw for decades, but I’ve been trying to pay more attention to what other ceanothus have to offer. This one, unfortunately, is one of the Burger King-type varieties: low, flat, green all year on a low-to-moderate amount of water. It’s so inert and emphatically green it reminds me of plastic. I may never come to love this type, but fortunately there are other plants in the genus that do very different things. […]

]]> By: out of doors http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2009/05/04/some-garden-ceanothus/comment-page-1/#comment-3086 out of doors Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:15:58 +0000 http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/?p=5480#comment-3086 The protests against garden plants by native plant people always interest me, in that it takes a very grey area and colors everything black and white. It's a garden plant because it was selected by a nursery? So were most of the so-called species plants available for purchase. Unless you do a restoration project, collecting seed from the immediate wildlands and raising it to plant out, you're planting garden plants. And do native plant purists really want the general public harvesting remaining native populations? The protests against garden plants by native plant people always interest me, in that it takes a very grey area and colors everything black and white. It’s a garden plant because it was selected by a nursery? So were most of the so-called species plants available for purchase. Unless you do a restoration project, collecting seed from the immediate wildlands and raising it to plant out, you’re planting garden plants. And do native plant purists really want the general public harvesting remaining native populations?

]]> By: [ Lost in the Landscape ] » screening with wood, screening with plants http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2009/05/04/some-garden-ceanothus/comment-page-1/#comment-2698 [ Lost in the Landscape ] » screening with wood, screening with plants Sat, 30 May 2009 14:01:53 +0000 http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/?p=5480#comment-2698 [...] their place is this new Ceanothus ‘Tuxedo.’ I’d done a post on some garden ceanothus not long ago, and I couldn’t stop thinking about the near-black foliage of this variety. With [...] […] their place is this new Ceanothus ‘Tuxedo.’ I’d done a post on some garden ceanothus not long ago, and I couldn’t stop thinking about the near-black foliage of this variety. With […]

]]> By: lostlandscape http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2009/05/04/some-garden-ceanothus/comment-page-1/#comment-2571 lostlandscape Wed, 06 May 2009 01:57:53 +0000 http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/?p=5480#comment-2571 Pomona, thank you. Like you I'm always amazed by what two plants can produce when they hybridize, and then add some cool mutations on top of the rich gene pool--as with Tuxedo. Pomona, thank you. Like you I’m always amazed by what two plants can produce when they hybridize, and then add some cool mutations on top of the rich gene pool–as with Tuxedo.

]]> By: Pomona Belvedere http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2009/05/04/some-garden-ceanothus/comment-page-1/#comment-2568 Pomona Belvedere Tue, 05 May 2009 19:16:37 +0000 http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/?p=5480#comment-2568 I'm always pleased and amazed by our many and seemingly constantly-hybridizing local ceanothus, but I'm no purist: 'Tuxedo' and the others look great to me, and I like the idea of a summer-flowering ceanothus. Very informative post, thanks. I’m always pleased and amazed by our many and seemingly constantly-hybridizing local ceanothus, but I’m no purist: ‘Tuxedo’ and the others look great to me, and I like the idea of a summer-flowering ceanothus. Very informative post, thanks.

]]> By: lostlandscape http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2009/05/04/some-garden-ceanothus/comment-page-1/#comment-2563 lostlandscape Tue, 05 May 2009 03:52:08 +0000 http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/?p=5480#comment-2563 Jenny, I think the agastache is an accomplishment where you are, even if ceanothus might elude you. Uh oh. Sounds like a challenge you can't refuse. Town Mouse, it sounds like you've got a perfect spot for it--something that's both to its liking and where it looks great. I'll have to admit to being tempted by the Tuxedo, and won't be surprised if it ends up in the yard in the next couple of weeks--I've got a spot for a plant with dark foliage. Jenny, I think the agastache is an accomplishment where you are, even if ceanothus might elude you. Uh oh. Sounds like a challenge you can’t refuse.

Town Mouse, it sounds like you’ve got a perfect spot for it–something that’s both to its liking and where it looks great. I’ll have to admit to being tempted by the Tuxedo, and won’t be surprised if it ends up in the yard in the next couple of weeks–I’ve got a spot for a plant with dark foliage.

]]> By: Town Mouse http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2009/05/04/some-garden-ceanothus/comment-page-1/#comment-2562 Town Mouse Tue, 05 May 2009 03:14:12 +0000 http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/?p=5480#comment-2562 The great thing about Diamond Heights is that it can tolerate part shade (mine gets maybe 4 hours of morning sun, then a bit here and there during the day through the redwoods. And with that brilliant colour, it really lights up the shade. I have it in a pot, and it's worked out quite well. The great thing about Diamond Heights is that it can tolerate part shade (mine gets maybe 4 hours of morning sun, then a bit here and there during the day through the redwoods. And with that brilliant colour, it really lights up the shade. I have it in a pot, and it’s worked out quite well.

]]> By: Jenny http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2009/05/04/some-garden-ceanothus/comment-page-1/#comment-2560 Jenny Tue, 05 May 2009 01:52:17 +0000 http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/?p=5480#comment-2560 Very jealous. Ceanothus typically hate lots of water and humidity. So, as you can imagine, dislikes the south intensely. I will admire from a far. Although, I have mastered growing agastache without drowning them. Maybe one day... Very jealous. Ceanothus typically hate lots of water and humidity. So, as you can imagine, dislikes the south intensely. I will admire from a far.

Although, I have mastered growing agastache without drowning them. Maybe one day…

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