RE: Back in SC

Shoot, never mind the lawns, I'm talkin' about the sides of the
freeways!

Cyndi


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From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of james singer
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 11:01 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Back in SC

Know what you mean. After 35+ years on the east coast, I never quite got
used to those lawns--"Everyman's Versailles," we called them.

On Aug 6, 2007, at 10:59 AM, Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT wrote:

> Even in San Diego almost everything green you see gets some kind of 
> irrigation. They did not get any rain last winter either, and although

> there's irrigation rain helps a lot to keep everything looking decent 
> through the summer.
> Every time I go back east I spend a lot of time gawping out the car 
> windows at the green. "Look at all that GRASS! Somebody has to mow all

> that!"
>
> Cyndi
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On 
> Behalf Of Andrea Hodges
> Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 7:47 AM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: [CHAT] Back in SC
>
> Hi all-spent the last week in San Diego. My first trip to California. 
> I loved the weather. My first day there I went to the zoo and confess 
> I was much more enamored of the plant life than the animal, although 
> that was interesting too.
> Spent a lot of time eating and shopping and walking around downtown.
> This was a work trip most of which was spent at the Marine Corps 
> Recruit Depot. Jim, they had a blooming Hong Kong orchid tree in the 
> Drill Instructors court yard.
> Loved it. That was the first time I've gotten to see one actually 
> blooming in real life. Loved all the palms and the Jacaranda (I think)

> trees were blooming too. I'd love to try one of those here but I'm 
> afraid it wouldn't survive the winter. But, I'm glad to be home. I 
> have to admit that although their weather was MUCH nicer, the plant 
> life wasn't nearly as lush as I thought it would be.
> I guess because it's so much more rainy here? Everything at home looks

> like it's grown a foot in the week I was gone.
> Andrea Hodges
> Beaufort, SC
>
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Island Jim
Southwest Florida
27.1 N, 82.4 W
Hardiness Zone 10
Heat Zone 10
Sunset Zone 25
Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
Maximum 100 F [38 C]

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