Re: Thanks & weather

Been wishing all the excess you and all our mid-Westerners are getting would come South.  No such luck.

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Sat, 9 Aug 2003 21:11:14 -0500

>Pam, I'm so sorry for you.  I woke up once again to rain, and then it came
>down harder. I've lost a few plants to rot; some of them just can't take it.
>I mowed the lawn 3 times this week.
>
>Kitty
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Pamela J. Evans" <gardenqueen@gbronline.com>
>To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 12:22 PM
>Subject: Re: [CHAT] Thanks & weather
>
>
>> Still not a drop here.  Watered unitl 11 pm last night.  No, that's not a
>typo.
>>
>>
>> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>> From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net>
>> Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> Date:  Sat, 9 Aug 2003 10:13:18 -0500
>>
>> >Bonnie, glad the colchicum arrived ok.  Don't worry, just try to get them
>> >down by Labor Day.  Scaevola (Fan Flower) is from Australia. Likes
>> >well-drained soil and, as I think Marge mentioned, less phosphorous.  I
>have
>> >the new S. 'Zig Zag' that has done extremely well. Sorry yours didn't
>make
>> >it, but try again next year.
>> >Kitty
>> >
>> >----- Original Message -----
>> >From: "Bonnie Holmes" <holmesbm@usit.net>
>> >To: "Agardenchat" <gardenchat@hort.net>
>> >Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 9:17 AM
>> >Subject: [CHAT] Thanks & weather
>> >
>> >
>> >> Kitty...thanks so much...my bulbs arrived and half are in the
>> >> ground...we continue to have so much rain that it is difficult to get
>> >> prepared and I must be careful as where I tend to put them already has
>> >> spring bulbs. One of my former work colleagues grew them and said they
>> >> do very well here so I am really looking forward to them.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I also have a "disappearing plant". I started a new section of bed with
>> >> Angelina and decided to add a Scaevola...all were doing fine...slightly
>> >> different shades of color . I went out yesterday and the Scaevola was
>> >> GONE...nothing in sight.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> We have had storms and so much rain this year...a surplus of 7.52
>inches
>> >> since as of July 31 and we have had rain everyday in August...but the
>> >> butterflies are numerous...also the birds...also mosquitoes with
>reports
>> >> of West Nile in the county and rabbits everywhere. We saw two green
>> >> hummingbirds and a bright yellow finch yesterday. My flowers have
>> >> required much more pruning and deadheading than normal just to keep
>them
>> >> coming. Several of my herbs have given up due to wet feet even though I
>> >> built a raised herb bed with plenty of sand and stone.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Our paper did a feature on the rain comparing each month with "normal"
>> >> conditions. March and April seem to have just reversed with February,
>> >> May and July having more than double the usual rain.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Bonnie Zone 6+ ETN
>> >> holmesbm@usit.net
>> >>
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>> Pam Evans
>> Kemp TX/zone 8A
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX/zone 8A



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