Re: 61-degree heat wave

Re >that would make a sensational pressed flower garden!
Bonnie,
Did you get the flower press for Cmas?

And yes, chicory, Cichorium intybus, is considered a weed here too, but I
delight in them every summer for their beautiful hue.  (Re the bLatin - I
just finished creating a seed packet label for this plant)

Kitty


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bonnie & Bill Morgan" <wmorgan972@ameritech.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 5:16 PM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] 61-degree heat wave


> Jim, we have a good deal of wild chicory growing around here, mostly
thought
> of as weeds.   The flowers are lovely, but they are presented on those
bare
> stems at leafless, or nearly leafless, nodes along the stems, and most
folks
> don't give them a second glace because of that.  (Of course they spread
like
> crazy here, too.  That could be another reason they are thought of as
> weeds.)  I do think they have one of the clearest, cleanest blues in the
> plant world.
>
> Now if I could just confine some Queen Ann's Lace with wild chicory
> interspersed, that would make a sensational pressed flower garden!  Of
> course, whether the Queen Ann's Lace or the chicory would win out in the
> struggle for dominance is anyone's guess.  :>)
>
> Blessings,
> Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf
> Of james singer
> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 4:24 PM
> To: Chat
> Subject: [CHAT] 61-degree heat wave
>
> Was 61 at 6 this morning and has been falling ever since. Of course, up
> where the short one's kids live it's been in negative numbers all day.
> I've done my best to forget what that's like, however. Must be some
> Puritan need for self-flagellation that makes them want to live there.
>
> All of our christmas cacti have decided to bloom this week in spite of
> the cranky weather. Not just the yellow and purple we acquired last
> weekend but the red and yellow and pink ones that have been hanging out
> here for a few years. Blue--some genetic engineer needs to slip the
> color gene from chicory into the Schlumbergia gene pool. Now that would
> be sensational. The wild chicory has to most beautiful shade of blue of
> any flower anywhere. Bright. Electric.
>
>
> Island Jim
> Southwest Florida
> Zone 10
>
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