Re: cold in Texas was:Fashion Note/sago

I was down in Houston & Galveston the 6th, 7th & 14th. Definitely chillier
and rainier than November '02 when we went on our 1st cruise. Keep warm Pam.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pamela J. Evans" <gardenqueen@gbronline.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Fashion Note: now sago


> We've got a stiff North wind going out there. Ed and I were looking at
> Bridgett's van trying to figure out where the anti-freeze is leaking
> out. Brr. Going to go down to 30 tonight. Going to try watering and
> covering my lemon tree instead of lugging it in again - like to gave
> myself a hernia doing that last week.
>
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: cathy carpenter <cathyc@rnet.com>
> Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Date:  Tue, 16 Dec 2003 15:06:11 -0600
>
> >If it was 60 here, I'd be out in my garden! Unfortunately, it is around
> >32, with a vicious wind blowing from NNW - even the cat won't go out!
> >Cathy
> >On Monday, December 15, 2003, at 04:56 PM, james singer wrote:
> >
> >> If you want to quit spraying it, Bonnie, just cut the fronds off. It
> >> will probably put out a flush of new ones... and they will likely be
> >> scale-free. I think it's old enough to take that kind of shock in
> >> stride. That, incidentally, is how we have treated some of the very
> >> large ones at the nursery. If the infestation was really bad and the
> >> fronds began to turn brown, we cut them all off [bald stump], sprayed
> >> the trunk to kill any scale that might be hiding there, and fertilized
> >> the stump with osmocote. They all came back free of scale.
> >>
> >> Man, this cold [don't laugh, northern persons] is really beginning to
> >> annoy me. About 60 degrees today with a north wind. An office chum,
> >> who is new to the area from another part of Florida, leased a beach
> >> house that is neither insulated nor heated. Every morning she looks
> >> like a smurf with red hair.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sunday, December 14, 2003, at 04:27 PM, William Morgan wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Now I'm trying to find room somewhere near light (away from a vent, of
> >>> course) for my throatwort and a new little hibiscus. I think I caught
> >>> my
> >>> Sago Palm's "bugs" too late as it is starting to brown. I'm still
> >>> spraying it on the off chance it will recover once the infestation is
> >>> crushed.
> >>>
> >> Island Jim
> >> Southwest Florida
> >> Zone 10
> >>
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> Pam Evans
> Kemp TX/zone 8A
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