Anonymous
06-17-2004, 04:17 PM
From: fun38oakland@yahoo.com
Date: 06/14/02
Time: 12:18 PM
A local nursery is selling this ground cover and I'm a bit confused. Bacopa, it's common name, is also used for a group of plants that appear on a list of invasive plants in Florida waterways. Sutera diffusa was listed on the Kew Gardens web site as an example of a name with no scientific meaning which should actually be called Sutera cordata. All in all, I'm trying to figure out if this plant would be detremental to the environment if I put it in my garden in Berkeley. And while I'm asking... any suggestions on low growing plants, 4 inches or under, drought tolerant that can take DIRECT sun, hopefully native and beneficial for bugs? So far my list consists of creeping rosemary, a 4inch yarrow with yellow flowers - Achillea "notmillifolia", sea-pink, creeping thyme- wooly and lime. Nary a native in the bunch!
Thanks.
Laurie
Date: 06/14/02
Time: 12:18 PM
A local nursery is selling this ground cover and I'm a bit confused. Bacopa, it's common name, is also used for a group of plants that appear on a list of invasive plants in Florida waterways. Sutera diffusa was listed on the Kew Gardens web site as an example of a name with no scientific meaning which should actually be called Sutera cordata. All in all, I'm trying to figure out if this plant would be detremental to the environment if I put it in my garden in Berkeley. And while I'm asking... any suggestions on low growing plants, 4 inches or under, drought tolerant that can take DIRECT sun, hopefully native and beneficial for bugs? So far my list consists of creeping rosemary, a 4inch yarrow with yellow flowers - Achillea "notmillifolia", sea-pink, creeping thyme- wooly and lime. Nary a native in the bunch!
Thanks.
Laurie