Re: Re: Spring
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  • Subject: Re: Re: Spring
  • From: B* <b*@comcast.net>
  • Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 20:16:51 +0000 (UTC)
They will help keep the insects down. I love them. 

----- Original Message -----

From: aplfgcnys@aol.com 
To: gardenchat@hort.net 
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 10:51:01 AM 
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: Spring 

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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