RE: Crazy season
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  • Subject: RE: Crazy season
  • From: &* C* D* C* U* A* 9* C* <c*@edwards.af.mil>
  • Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 07:50:16 -0700
Maybe you'll find a place within reasonable driving distance. I can get
to two native plant nurseries now, although Theodore Payne is a good
hour away, but that's not too bad.  If you can't find local plants, Las
Pilitas has only CA natives and they mail-order. Most of my salvias have
come from them. Then of course there's High Country Gardens.
Have a good vacation!

Cyndi  


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of sundrops@earthlink.net
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 4:50 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Crazy season

Oh thanks!  Lots of these would do well here and I love the buckwheats
tho 
hard to find in regular nurseries.  Am hoping to revamp my plantings
some 
this year after 2-3 years of doing little, tho about to go on vacation
for a 
week --
--Barb
----- 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 4:32 PM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] Crazy season


> 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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