Re: Re: Purple martins

I've never seen any around here.  Pity.  

Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: Cathy Carpenter
Sent: 12/7/2004 8:16:10 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Snow

Before you go to the trouble of erecting one, be sure you have some in 
the neighborhood. A neighbor put one up here, and it was never 
occupied, even though there is a thriving colony on the other side of 
town.
Cathy
On Tuesday, December 7, 2004, at 06:14 AM, "" 
<gardenqueen@academicplanet.com> wrote:

> Whew, me too. May have to invest in a purple martin house next year. 
> I'm
> told they love to gobble skeeters. Anyone else have one? Tips?
>
>
> Pam Evans
> Kemp, TX
> zone 8A
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Andrea H
> Sent: 12/6/2004 8:23:03 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: Re: [CHAT] Snow
>
> Not really, I think they just hibernate,
> Glad you  made it through the storm.
> A
>
> Andrea H
> Beaufort, SC
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <gardenqueen@academicplanet.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 8:51 PM
> Subject: Re: Re: [CHAT] Snow
>
>
>> I don't know - we had our first hard freeze last week and still have
> mosquitoes.  Doesn't anything kill these monsters?
>>
>> Pam Evans
>> Kemp, TX
>> zone 8A
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Andrea H
>> Sent: 12/6/2004 5:53:01 PM
>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Snow
>>
>> How annoying, it's supposed to be 80 degrees here tomorrow. I'm ready 
>> for
>> cold truthfully. It will get rid of the gnats for a while.
>>
>> Andrea H
>> Beaufort, SC
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <Aplfgcnys@aol.com>
>> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 3:51 PM
>> Subject: [CHAT] Snow
>>
>>
>>> We are having our first good snowfall today (there was a dusting a
> couple
>> of
>>> weeks
>>> ago that didn't really count).  Today was the day my garden club
> decorated
>> the
>>> house at Lasdon Park & Arboretum where we meet.  The house, which is 
>>> not
>>> really
>>> open to the public, is part of the Westchester Parks Department, but 
>>> is
>> mainly
>>> used for offices and meeting facilities.  It was a wealthy man's 
>>> summer
>> home,
>>> built
>>> in the 1930s in the style of George Washington's Mt. Vernon.  Every 
>>> year
>> we
>>> decorate the main rooms before the annual "Friends of..." dinner and
> other
>>> park
>>> functions.  This year the tree in the main entrance hall is decorated
> with
>>> nearly
>>> 200 shiny metallic-paper origami birds made by one of our members. In
>> addition
>>> we have filled the spaces between branches with bits of white dried
> baby's
>>> breath
>>> which gives it a very delicate, airy appearance.  That, with the 
>>> lights
>> and a
>>> few
>>> crystalline snowflake ornaments, is all, but we think it really looks
>> lovely.
>>>  We
>>> used origami birds in some of the other decorations throughout the
> rooms -
>> the
>>> two fireplace mantles, roping on the stairway, wreaths on doors, etc.
> The
>>> snow
>>> had begun to fall before we finished, and it really made a
>> picture-post-card
>>> scene.
>>> We hurried through lunch (always bring a covered-dish lunch) and
> business
>>> meeting so members could get home before the snow got bad, but I 
>>> don't
>> think
>>> it is really going to amount to much.  Temperatures are  in the high
> 20s,
>> so
>>> I'm expecting this to be gone tomorrow.  I have been wrong before, 
>>> but
>> hey,
>>> it's
>>> really that time of year.
>>> Auralie
>>>
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