Re: Weather/rhodies

Yep. They've got a new one called "Black Widow" that's to die for. Don't know if it's included in the on-line gallery. 

http://greergardens.com/

On Jun 7, 2008, at 6:07 PM, David Franzman wrote:


Jim, I'm looking for some rhodies and azealeas do they have an online
presence?



----- Original Message ----
From: james singer
<islandjim1@comcast.net>
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Sent: Saturday, June 7, 2008
5:38:33 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Weather/rhodies

Sass [my sister] was going
through Greer's catalog earlier today
highlighting rhododendron cultivars
she wants to consider when we go
down there later this month. Many of them
here are still blooming--
some just now coming into bloom.

Beautiful day
today--warm, sunny. Almost got my gooseberry raised bed
finished, but ran
out of topsoil, so back to Lowe's in the AM.

On Jun 7, 2008, at 4:28 PM,
Kitty wrote:


Auralie, it is so good to hear you talking about beautiful

blooms

after all you've been through.  I do feel your pain about the

heat,

too.  We got the same temps, but immediately after lots of rain, so
it's been steaming right out of the soil; we're dripping w
humidity.

And I hear more rain is on the way.


Our rhodies are all done, but the

roses around here too are

spectacular.

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
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Original Message ----- From: <Aplfgcnys@aol.com>

To: <gardenchat@hort.net>


Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 4:41 PM

Subject: [CHAT] Weather, etc.





After a couple of weeks of rather cool weather - yesterday it did not

get

out of the 60s - today it is 92.  Everything is cooking - just

looking


totally wilted.  We need rain so badly, and now this.


However, despite

the droughty and cool spring, the blooms have been

spectacular.  Everyone's

Rhododendrons are blooming more heavily

than I have ever seen them before.

My Kousa dogwood has massive

blooms.  The peonies are astonishing - or were

until this heat hit

them.
We were on the Taconic Parkway this

afternoon, and the roadside is

just blanketed with white multiflora roses.

I know they are

considered
a noxious weed and an invasive alien -

though when we first moved out

here nearly half a century ago they were

sold as ideal hedging.  I

have
never seen them bloom as heavily as

they are right now - and

fragrant!
I still wish we had had a gentler

introduction to the heat.  I need

to go
out and water, but just can't

make myself go out until it cools

down a
bit - if it does.
Auralie



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