Re: Cold
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  • Subject: Re: Cold
  • From: P* E* <g*@gmail.com>
  • Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:32:43 -0600
finally warmed up here too.  thank God.

On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 2:54 PM, <Aplfgcnys@aol.com> wrote:

> Cyndi, Your cold weather has come all the way across the continent to us
> this week.  Until this week we have had a very mild winter - some
> nights not even freezing, and only a few in the lower 20s.  But wham!
> this week we haven't been above freezing since Monday, and nights
> have been in the single digits.What worries me about it is that there
> is no snow cover.  There war about three inches week before last but
> that had pretty much melted.  The previous several less severe winters
> have spoiled us.  Two years ago we had cold but there was a good
> snow cover and things came through very well.  I am afraid I will lose
> a bunch of my marginally hardy plants that have survived for several
> years now.  I don't expect Artemisia 'Powis Castle' will pull through,
> or my Ruta graveolens.  I have lost both in previous cold winters, but
> the ones I have now are three years old.  I just ordered more 'Powis
> Castle' from Bluestone to take advantage of their 15% off for early
> orders.
>
> Auralie
>
>
> In a message dated 1/17/2013 12:45:03 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil writes:
>
> We're finally coming out of our cold snap. It's been in the teens at
> night and the 40s-50s during the day for a week and a half. I had a
> major brain malfunction last Sunday, I forgot to turn the little
> electric heater in the greenhouse back on after I watered. This morning
> before we left for work it suddenly hit me and I dashed out there - I
> couldn't see too much because it wasn't sunup yet but it looks like I
> lost the big croton and two of the coleus I've been overwintering for a
> couple years, and at least the top part of the canna got frosted.  Good
> thing I don't have anything in there I can't afford to lose.
> No rain to speak of yet either. It's so dry I get shocked with static
> several times a day. Yesterday I dumped my leftover coffee on the dirt
> and it just beaded up for a while instead of sinking in.  My hopes for a
> good wildflower season are fading; but there's still time for things to
> turn around.
>
> Cyndi
>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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