Re: Re: Spring
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  • Subject: Re: Re: Spring
  • From: C* C* <c*@comcast.net>
  • Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 15:24:11 -0500
Most clumping bamboos are pretty cold hardy. Mine always look dead at the end of winter, but have come back. Give them a chance. 
Cathy, west central IL, z5b

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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