Re: Donna and tornadoes

thanks for the update Vera....wow.


----- Original Message ----
From: Vera
Metzke <vmetzke@gmail.com>
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Sent: Sunday, June 8, 2008
9:57:19 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Donna and tornadoes

Greetings all - Wanted to
report on the Illinois tornadoes.  Donna's town
and very close was effected
and she is without power.  I don't know of
damages in her area but they are
all intact.  With power out she will be
unable to check in as she does so well
for all of us.

Vera

On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 3:41 PM, <Aplfgcnys@aol.com>
wrote:

> 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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