Re: OT - another cold front has arrived

I have (hopefully still do) an Australian tree fern- and we certainly don't have humidity here. But it is planted under the big ash tree in the front yard and has done very well...up until the big freeze here a couple of weeks ago. Over the weekend I went out and cut back the frozen/mushy parts on that fern and a bunch of other plants- so we'll just see what comes back in spring. I noticed the "mexican heathers" are all brown and crispy- so not too optimistic about them either. On a positive note- they did come and put the final coat of stucco on our house today!! Yeah. I didn't get home until after dark- so I'm looking forward to checking it out in the morning. 

Theresa

Cathy Carpenter wrote:
Lucky you to have an Australian tree fern! I have never had luck with tree ferns - probably my inability to provide sufficient humidity. We were in the single digits this morning with a wind chill of around -16. 

Cathy, west central IL, z5b

On Jan 29, 2007, at 7:44 PM, Andrea Hodges wrote:
It's 24 here tonight. Brrrrr! Had to bring the Australian Tree Fern in even.
----- Original Message ----- From: "james singer" <islandjim1@verizon.net> 
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] OT - another cold front has arrived
It must be contagious. It's 56 here today--that's the coldest day in the last 3 or 4 years. Supposed to warm up to high 60s tomorrow. 
On Jan 29, 2007, at 11:27 AM, Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT wrote:
It actually got a bit warmer here as the clouds rolled in. It must have drizzled a little bit on Saturday night but not enough to be measurable. 
On the gardening front, I did...nothing. Saturday my sister had a
birthday party for my brother-in-law, which I wasn't planning on going to at first, but he is not in good health. Better to celebrate now than 
regret later. Then on Sunday we picked up a camper; it's an old one
we'll use when we do horse camping, and it took all day to get it ready to put on the truck. Who knew that getting horses would lead to so much stuff? At some point all this has to reach equilibrium so we can ride the horses instead of getting ready to ride them, and hopefully at that 
point time will also open up for me to get back into the garden.
I am looking at bare-root fruit trees though, and have to make a
decision pretty quick. Can't decide if I want another peach or if I
should try a pear tree, we've never grown one of those before.

Cyndi

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [mailto:owner- gardenchat@hort.net] On 
Behalf Of Theresa W
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 6:50 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] OT - another cold front has arrived

Brrr-I'm chilly for you.  It's supposed to be 54 here and we might
actually get some rain!! It's been very dry this January. I spent all day in the garage today, cleaning, ripping out a crappy old cabinet (can we say euwwww- disgusting). Apparently that is where the mice had been living last winter- even found a petrified mouse carcass- yuck! Anyway, got all of that out- now to figure out how to get it to the dump! Got another shelving unit, and at least got stuff stacked on shelves, but the whole thing needs to be organized. But still.... visible progress!! I have to do a little more tomorrow no matter what, so that we can get the other car in the garage- but after that I think I'm going to leave this project for a week or two, and come back to it then. I'm rather sick of spending my weekends in the garage....even if it is cleaner now. 

Theresa

Donna wrote:

dropping here too.... tomorrows high is only supposed to be 18...
going down to 7 overnight....burr! The bad news is all my snow melted this week so the plants are on their own. (although they are 
predicting snow showers for
tomorrow- we will see)

Donna


----- Original Message ----
From: Pam Evans
<gardenqueen@gmail.com>
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Sent: Saturday, January 27,
2007 6:27:57 PM
Subject: [CHAT] OT - another cold front has arrived


Here we
go again.  At 4:00 it was beautiful - 63 degrees - gardening in
shirtsleeves!
By 5:30 it was down to the lower 40's and the North wind is still
howling.
Thank goodness I got most everything done today before it hit.
Finally got the last of that flat of purple rain pansies, snapdragons 
and irises planted by then.  Then I had to bring all the pots of
tender stuff in again.  Ugh.
But I dearly love my colorful ornamental peppers (Aurora & Nosegay)
and my walking iris so they're worth the trouble.  Also got my Vera
Jameson sedum relocated out to the new xeriscape bed (was my pepper
bed - a real water hog) and watered in just in time.  Hope Oklahoma
doesn't get blasted again like the last time.  *sigh*
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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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