Re: Re: Spring
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  • Subject: Re: Re: Spring
  • From: a*@aol.com
  • Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 10:51:01 -0400 (EDT)
I'm concerned to see that bamboos all around are looking dead.  This is not
usually the case.  Of course, I would be happy enough if my neighbor's wall
of big, invasive bamboos that have choked out the shrubs at the bottom of
my garden would succumb, but I have a very nice clumping one that grows
about six feet high, and in the past 40 years has not spread to more than
a six-foot clump.  Is the dead look a result of the see-saw weather this
year?
We have had extreme cold in past years, but this year we have had so
many ups and downs.  I hope some of the bamboos recover.


I wish I could send a picture of the parade of 21 turkeys through my garden
one day this week.  We frequently have a flock of 11 or 12 that parade
through
the driveway, but this was really a sight.  There were a couple of really
grand
toms, each leading his harem.


Auralie



-----Original Message-----
From: Catharine Carpenter <cathycrc@comcast.net>
To: gardenchat <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Sat, Mar 29, 2014 8:40 am
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: Spring


Hope I can get some spinach seeds in this weekend, if the garden dries
just a bit. Started bell pepper and "Numex Suave" a milder habanero,
plus hyacinth bean and Rudbeckia hirta inside yesterday.
Cathy, west central IL, z5b

On Mar 28, 2014, at 3:58 PM, Melody Hobert-Mellecker wrote:

> Not much happening here in Iowa...Auralie is right, it has been a
> long,
> long winter. We are finally rid of the snow cover and had a generous
> amount
> of much needed rain yesterday.  Its supposed to get into the 60's this
> weekend so I am hoping for some sunshine and time in the gardens.
> There is
> so much to be done with clean-up...seems like I didn't get much done
> this
> past fall...too cold too early!
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 3:44 PM, <aplfgcnys@aol.com> wrote:
>
>>  All of you guys are making me really jealous.  Although the
>> temperature
>> is
>> above
>> freezing today - 42 degrees and raining - we still have piles of
>> snow.
>> Most
>> of the
>> yard is clear, but the ground is still frozen, and the fenced
>> vegetable
>> garden
>> is still
>> totally snow-covered.
>>  I do have a clump of snowdrops blooming at the foot of the big
>> boulder
>> beside the
>> driveway.  One clump of Hellebore that has lost its snow cover is
>> showing
>> buds
>> up
>> about 2 inches.  The others have not yet emerged.  Some early
>> daffodils - I
>> think
>> I planted 'February Gold' there - are up a few inches, but most
>> have not
>> come
>> up yet.
>>  There is much that needs to be done.  I didn't get much fall clean-
>> up
>> done
>> last
>> year, thanks in part to weather and in part to my struggle with
>> returning
>> Lyme
>> disease.
>> I have not even been able to get down to the vegetable garden so
>> far this
>> spring -
>> the steep sloping yard was so icy I didn't dare even try - my 85-
>> year-old
>> bones are
>> too fragile to risk it.  I'm hoping next week will bring some nice
>> weather,
>> though the
>> forecasts so far are for rain.  It's been a long, long winter, and
>> I'm more
>> than ready
>> for a change.
>> Auralie
>>
>>
>> Spring is here north of Atlanta, even though we went down to 26
>> yesterday
>> morning. My serviceberry is about halfway finished, the daffs are
>> done
>> except for 2 late bloomers. Grape and wood Hyacinths are in full
>> bloom, the
>> neighbor's Bradford pears are almost finished with their
>> stinkiness, Hostas
>> have their noses in the air and most of my daylilies and Iris are
>> 8" tall
>> or
>> so.  Miraculously, the cold yesterday didn't turn the neighbor's
>> Japanese
>> Magnolia to brown Kleenex nor does it seem to have hurt the cherry
>> trees.
>> I don't know how well some of my blueberries will fare. Some of
>> them were
>> in
>> full bloom and they looked pretty sad yesterday.
>>
>> daryl
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Daryl <dp2413@comcast.net>
>> To: gardenchat <gardenchat@hort.net>
>> Sent: Thu, Mar 27, 2014 7:50 am
>> Subject: [CHAT] Re: Spring was Request
>>
>>
>> Spring is here north of Atlanta, even though we went down to 26
>> yesterday
>> morning. My serviceberry is about halfway finished, the daffs are
>> done
>> except for 2 late bloomers. Grape and wood Hyacinths are in full
>> bloom, the
>> neighbor's Bradford pears are almost finished with their
>> stinkiness, Hostas
>> have their noses in the air and most of my daylilies and Iris are
>> 8" tall
>> or
>> so.  Miraculously, the cold yesterday didn't turn the neighbor's
>> Japanese
>> Magnolia to brown Kleenex nor does it seem to have hurt the cherry
>> trees.
>> I don't know how well some of my blueberries will fare. Some of
>> them were
>> in
>> full bloom and they looked pretty sad yesterday.
>>
>> daryl
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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