RE: hummingbirds NOW Tomato Hornworms

Same here, Donna.  I do wish the plant purveyors would hold off on selling
the "tender stuff" until May 15th.  

Blessings,
Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5) 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of Donna
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 8:58 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] hummingbirds NOW Tomato Hornworms

well add me to the nut case senerio... although I have not bought any plants
for this season yet.

If you don't buy early here, all you will get is the standard annual plants.
I bought a plastic type small greenhouse just for them last year at a very
good close out pricing.  John just asked me today where we were going to put
it up- told him I would worry about that in April.

Donna
last frost date is May 15 or something like that.


--- Zemuly Sanders <zsanders@midsouth.rr.com> wrote:

> The part about 1992 made me laugh.  I was at Home Depot today to 
> replace some lopping shears, and I had to smile at all the people 
> buying flowers for their yards.  It was in the upper 70s today, but 
> our last frost date is April 15.  Two years ago we had snow on April 
> 14.
> Admitedly it warmed right
> back up, but some people have shorter memories than I do. :-) zem zone 
> 7 West TN
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daryl" <pulis@mindspring.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 6:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] hummingbirds NOW Tomato Hornworms
> 
> 
> > I'm so glad I don't live up north any more. We
> moved south in 1981, after
> > a
> > couple of the worst blizzards and cold spells in
> the NYC/No. NJ area. I
> > haven't been back since.
> >
> > It was 82 when I got home after teaching a
> landscape design class this
> > afternoon. The So. Leopard frogs are singing, and
> crickets, too. Most of
> > the
> > birds that visited the waterfall on the pond did
> so in pairs. I'm enjoying
> > it,
> > but also remembering 1992?when it was in the 80's
> for a week before we got
> > a
> > foot of snow. gale force winds and 8 degrees. I
> think that was on the
> > 13th.
> >
> > Daryl
> > Zone 7a/Georgia
> > Gardening on Heavy Clay
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Maria Olshin" <marolsh@ptd.net>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 9:22 AM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] hummingbirds NOW Tomato
> Hornworms
> >
> >
> >> Tomato hornworms are members of the Sphingidae
> family, as are the
> >> clearwing Sphinx moths that look so much like
> hummers. Manduca
> >> quinquemaculata,  the Tomato Hornworm, is not a
> clearwing moth, and
> >> grows up to be the Five-spotted Hawkmoth.
> >>
> >> When I had a large buddleia in bloom, it was
> covered with the little
> >> flying lobsters, as well as many other
> butterflies and insects. Alas,
> >> buddleia is marginally hardy here, and I have
> seen few sphinx moths in
> >> the last couple of years. The hummers always come
> back but since the
> >> elevation here is nearly 2000 feet, they first
> show up in May, and
> >> don't settle in until around Memorial Day.
> >>
> >> Mud season is well under way here, and last
> week's three inches of snow
> >> is disappearing fast. There was very little snow
> this season; my
> >> driveway was plowed only three times, although
> there was plenty of
> >> rain. The lake is still low and there won't be
> much snowmelt this
> >> spring. This morning I saw several skeins of
> Canada geese flying
> >> northward, and even though the lake is still 95%
> iced-over, there was a
> >> hardy soul out in a canoe, exploring the edges.
> >>
> >> Maria in NE PA, zone 5b
> >>
> >>
>
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