Re: Crazy season
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  • Subject: Re: Crazy season
  • From: &* S* <z*@comcast.net>
  • Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 09:49:16 -0500
I would say that should give you bragging rights.  Great jobm Auralie!
zem
----- Original Message ----- From: <Aplfgcnys@aol.com> 
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Crazy season



Just another round in this yoyo season.  After a very hot and humid three
days for our flower show - reaching upper 90s on Saturday and heading that
way Sunday, a storm system blew through, and today we are in the mid 60s.

Our show was to close at 3:00 PM - we have to close it then because we
must be knocked down and out of the house by 4:00.  A crowd was standing
gathered - why do people always come in just at closing time? - and I was
watching the clock to announce closing in about two minutes, when the lights went out! My first thought was that another person was warning that it was 
closing time, but then I realized the lights were out all over the house
except
for the emergency exit lights.  This created no real problem, as there are
lots of windows and French doors, so we proceeded to take the show apart.
Then someone remembered that the gates to the park were electronically
operated, and we might be shut in.  Well, that problem was somehow solved
by the park staff andwe managed to get everything cleared away by 3:55.Whew! 

I can't resist a bit of boasting.  My little club is down to 9 active
members, but we put on a lovely Standard Flower Show, including 103
horticulture
entries, of which 51 were blue ribbon winners. Of course some entries were
from
non-members, both horticulture and design, but still...
Auralie


In a message dated 6/2/2010 11:14:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
sundrops@earthlink.net writes:
----- 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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