RE: rose question/weather

Man, I hope you don't get as much snow as the rain you've gotten this year.  You'll need a snowplow just to get to work!
And mother lives in NE PA (Bear Creek), in the mountains just north of
the Poconos. Zone 4/5. Sorry - should have mentioned that!!


:-)

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Donna " <justme@prairieinet.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Sun, 31 Aug 2003 13:16:44 -0500

>I noticed that some trees appear to be changing color just the other day
>on my ride to work. Thought it was odd, but didn't have time to pull
>over and see if in fact, they were just changing color or something else
>was wrong. Been a strange year weather wise here, so anything is
>possible. If we stay on the same weather pattern, we are gonna get
>hammered with snow.
>
>Sorry Pam, no comment on the rose... all of mine, the very few I have,
>are all in the ground here.
>
>Donna
>
>
>> 
>> Pam, I do not know where your mother lives but in our area I think I
>would
>> sink the container in the soil  and cover with a secured rose cone.
>>     Trees in our area are dropping leaves.  Many trees are severely
>> scorched
>> from the extreme heat & lack of moisture.  Many varieties of trees are
>in
>> trouble in our area.  First strike is, our native land was prairie not
>a
>> woodland.
>>  Our trees are stressed from heat, dryness & many of diseases, insects
>and
>> environmental problems.  The most over used green and white ash are at
>the
>> top
>> of the list.  It appears this may be another problem as suffered by
>the
>> elms
>> sometime ago.  Our oaks and conifers are suffering from multi diseases
>&
>> insects, too.
>>     In our development all green ash were planted in the strip betwn
>side
>> walks and street (I believe this is referred to by some as the
>hellstrip).
>> This
>> gives a very uniform look but it would seem we would have learned from
>the
>> big
>> loss of elms.
>>     When we lost our curb trees in the tornado of 98' we replaced with
>an
>> Autumn Blaze maple, Liriodendron and Autumn Purple Ash (which were
>> recommended at
>> the time but now the white ash has problems also).
>>     Ceres, Iowa zone 4/5
>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX/zone 8A



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