Re: Weather/rhodies

OMG!  I don't have a job...I can't be spending money like this.  But.....
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From: james singer <islandjim1@comcast.net>
To:
gardenchat@hort.net
Sent: Saturday, June 7, 2008 6:32:22 PM
Subject: Re:
[CHAT] 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
>> -----
> 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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> Elevation 148'
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