RE: Crazy season
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  • Subject: RE: Crazy season
  • From: &* C* D* C* U* A* 9* C* <c*@edwards.af.mil>
  • Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 16:32:09 -0700
Chilopsis (desert willow)
Salvia dorii 
Salvia clevelandii
Salvia pachyphylla
Salvia spathacea
Erigonum umbellatum (sulfur buckwheat)
Erigonum fasciculatum (California buckwheat)
Fallugia paradoxa (Apache plume)
Rabbitbush - ummm, chrysothamnus something?
Artemisia tridentata (sagebrush)
Several penstemons...palmeri, strictus, and a red one I can't remember -
it's native here. 
Spanish lavender
A pennisetum I can't remember...3-4' tall


Cyndi  


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of sundrops@earthlink.net
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 4:07 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Crazy season

Cyndi -- what do you have in your dry garden?  You've mentioned it
before --
--Barb Tandy, Grass Valley CA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/SCOSI" 
<cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 3:24 PM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] Crazy season


>I wonder if the whole year will be unsettled? Hopefully you will get
> some rain. I think we are finally going into summer here. It is in the
> 80s now, we had some overcast that is mostly gone, and still windier
> than usual. Everyone is complaining about the wind.
> We spent Memorial Day weekend doing our volunteer stint in the
mountains
> with the horses. It is still cold enough at 7500' feet to have snow
here
> and there; we spent almost a whole day with axes, shovels and saws
> clearing snow, ice and avalanche debris off a 6 foot section of trail
so
> the horses could get through. We couldn't do anything about the
> multi-ton boulder but there's still room to pass. I am so grateful to
> the trail crews that spent the last three weekends on the other
hundred
> yards of trail, the damage was truly awe-inspiring. Glad I wasn't
there
> when the avalanche happened!
> In my vegetable garden I think I picked the last of the peas last
night,
> I don't see any flowers left. I'm still picking lettuce and spinach
but
> it will be quite some time before we have anything else, even the
> zucchini plants are still fairly small. But all is growing nicely just
> need to keep the gophers away. The coreopsis and gaillardia burst into
> bloom while we were away, very cheerful to see. My Chrysler Imperial
> rose has finally decided to live, it is growing well and blooming
> heavily at the moment. Almost all the wildflowers are gone to seed
> although I have a few nice displays in the dry garden.
> Our local u-pick cherry orchards claim they will be opening in two
> weeks. I'm eager to make preserves this year; I didn't put up a single
> jar of anything last year and I really missed it. I may start with
rose
> jelly this coming weekend if I still have enough roses.
>
> Cyndi
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> Behalf Of Aplfgcnys@aol.com
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 11:25 AM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: [CHAT] Crazy season
>
> What a weird season we've been having.  Three separate spells
> of 90 degree heat, starting in April, the first two followed by
frosts,
> and the latest by a cooler spell.  Despite a lot of cloudy and
> overcast days, we haven't had nearly enough rain.  It's very dry
> here, and this afternoon is just another example of the craziness.
> Within the past hour we have had a heavy thunder storm with pelting
> rain for perhaps ten minutes.  Now the sun is shining brightly again
> and the sky is blue.
> Everything has bloomed out of its usual pattern.  I have a flowershow
> coming up this weekend, and had counted on having peonies both as
> horticulture exhibits, and as material for a mass arrangement I have
> signed up for.  Well, my peonies began to bloom nearly three weeks
> ago, and are just about past.  Today's brief rainstorm probably took
> the last of them.  Don't know what we'll have for the flower show -
all
> my members are having the same complaint.
> Many things have been more than usually floriferous.  In my garden I
> enjoy several wild plants that most people call weeds.  I have had
great
> displays of Dame's Rocket, and masses of the native Columbine
> (Aquilegia canadensis).  Just now the milkweeds are making a handsome
> border beside the big boulder.  Most people consider them weeds, but I
> love them.
> One observation - though almost everything else has bloomed
splendidly,
> if
> out of it's usual pattern, the native dogwood, Cornus florida, bloomed
> very
> poorly.  Not just mine, but throughout the woods, and others are also
> complaining.  However,  coming along a couple of weeks later, the
Kousa
> dogwoods are as splendid as I can ever remember.  Does that mean our
> climate has become more like Korea?
> Hope everyone had a healthy and happy Memorial Day weekend.
> Auralie
>
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