Re: Re: Happy Birthday
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  • Subject: Re: Re: Happy Birthday
  • From: P* E* <f*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 18:45:48 -0500
happy b-day indeed.


On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Zemuly Sanders <430fae0d1@rewrite.hort.net>
wrote:

> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Aug 2, 2014, at 3:11 PM, Aplfgcnys@aol.com wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 8/1/2014 10:43:42 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> zemuly@comcast.net writes:
> > I wish you a very happy birthday.
> > Zem
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> > Thanks, Zem.  Chete took me to lunch at the Riverview  Restaurant in Cold
> Spring which has a
> > stunning view of the Hudson Highlands and Storm King Mountain.  It was
> almost worth being 86 years old.
> >
> > I will take advantage of this contact to ask a couple of GardenChat type
> questions.
> >
> > The first is very simple.  Why, here at beginning of August, are my
> dogwoods
> definitely showing
> > red leaves?  It has been somewhat dry this summer, but not a real
> drought,
> and only moderately
> > hot.
> >
> > Next question is more complicated.
> > For several years I have bought a plant at the local Arboretum plant
> sale to
> grow in a pot on my
> > front stoop.  This has been Euporbia 'Diamond Frost'.  Do you know it?
>  It
> is very delicate with
> > lacy growth, tiny leaves with dark markings, and small white star-like
> flowers.  It makes a bushy
> > little plant about a foot wide and high.  As I say, I have grown this
> several years, getting a new
> > plant each spring.  I have one this year.  Usually the plant is about
> done
> by fall when I bring things
> > in, but last fall we had an early frost threat, and as the plant still
> looked good, I brought it in and
> > put it under the lights where I start seed, and keep a few things over
> the
> winter.  It lost all its
> > leaves before long, but the stems still were green, so I left it there.
>  All
> winter, it kept its green
> > look, so I let it stay, but finally when I started seeds and needed the
> space this spring I set the
> > pot outside and thought no more about it.  Then a week or so ago, I
> happened
> to notice the pot
> > that I had put in an obscure spot, and it was full of bright green
> leaves.
> The plant has leafed out
> > and is growing strongly, but instead of the tiny, lacy growth, the leaves
> are bright green and
> > more than twice a large as the original plant.  I still have the plant
> label
> from that, and from the
> > one I bought this year, and they are the  same.  What has happened? Side
> by
> side, the two
> > plants really don't look a bit alike.  Why has this one changed from last
> year?
> >
> > Thanks for listening to my rant,
> >
> > Hope you are having a good summer.
> >
> > Auralie
>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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