Re: I think it's spring
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  • Subject: Re: I think it's spring
  • From: k* <c*@aol.com>
  • Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:08:56 -0400 (EDT)
Rich, I think Powis Castle would be iffy for you. I managed to lose it the
first winter but perhaps I did something or didn't do something I should have.
I am mid Illinois Z5. kathy





-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Apking <redfour@omni-tech.net>
To: gardenchat <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Sat, Mar 19, 2011 11:55 am
Subject: Re: [CHAT] I think it's spring


Hi Pam, will that grow here, South edge of Z-4, North edge of Z-5???  If
so I'd like some!!  Rich

On 3/18/2011 5:37 PM, Pam Evans wrote:
> Auralie, I'll have to prune my big 'Powis Castle' very soon.  You want me
to
> wrap up the nice cuttings and send?   They used to get to Marge Talt in MD
> in good shape?   Just let me know @ your convenience.
>
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 5:20 PM,<Aplfgcnys@aol.com>  wrote:
>
>> Bizarre weather.  The piles of snow are gone, washed away by the floods,
>> and today it's in the 70s.  I got down to the vegetable garden for the
>> first
>> time since December. I put in a short row of peas, since the ground was
>> quite thawed.  For the past two years I have had no crop of peas or beans
>> because the plants were eaten by some critter - probably a woodchuck.This
>> time I started with a short row, and gave it a heavy treatment of a new
>> product
>> offered by Park's which says it repels small pests. We'll see.  There's
not
>> much
>> point in planting when things get eaten before they can produce.  I'll try
>> this
>> with squash and sunflowers when it's time to plant them - in the last
>> couple
>> of years the seeds have been eaten right in the ground before they
sprouted
>> -
>> chipmunks I think.
>>   I spent some time trying to loosen the thich crust in the front flower
>> bed.
>> We had mulched with leaves last fall, as we usually do, but I guess it was
>> because there had been a heavy snow pack since December, it has formed
>> a thick, brittle crust.  I've never seen it like that before. When I break
>> it up
>> with my fingers, there is plenty of green life beneath, but no shoots
>> coming
>> through.  Even hefty things like Hellebores were not making it.
>>   My Artemisia 'Powis Castle', which is not reliably hardy, seems alive,
as
>> does the Ruta graveolens.  I cut them back pretty sharply, for they had
>> been
>> very lush last year.  Here's hoping they survive.  I have already ordered
>> more
>> plants from Bluestone, not expecting anything to survive the bitter
winter,
>> but
>> there will always be space for more.
>>   I know there will be more cold weather, but it's good to have a break.
>> We
>> are just about dried out in the downstairs apartment after two separate
>> floods.  We have had floods before - maybe every seven or eight years -
but
>> never two in one season.  What a winter!
>>   Here's hoping the rest of you are enjoying a touch of spring, too.
>> APL
>>
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