Re: Re: Spring
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  • Subject: Re: Re: Spring
  • From: Z* <z*@comcast.net>
  • Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 10:11:40 -0500
It's so good hearing from everybody. I, too, am sick of being cold this
year. I am slowly getting my beds ready and an delighting at what is
coming up. It's skyway a thrill to see what has survived, especially
this past winter. Auralie, it is a pleasure to hear from you.


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> On Mar 29, 2014, at 9:51 AM, aplfgcnys@aol.com wrote:
> 
> 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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