Re: Winter & What's in Bloom

>  either the equator [my first choice] or the arctic circle
Neither one appeals to me.  I still like it here in Indiana, though
nothing's in bloom but the Saintpaulia in the living room.
Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Winter & What's in Bloom


> Hi, Bonnie. It's like that. Chilly [by Florida standards] at 6 AM when
> I go to work--now I wear Levis and a jacket to work rather than short
> pants--but I'm uncomfortably overdressed when I go home at 4 PM. I'm
> considering moving to someplace where the temperature is more
> predictable--either the equator [my first choice] or the arctic circle
> [my last choice--minus one].
>
>
> On Monday, November 24, 2003, at 06:03 PM, Bonnie & Bill Morgan wrote:
>
> > Jim, that beats the socks off the sleet I woke up to and the spitting
> > snow
> > with 20mph winds when I left work!  Ahhhh.  I can almost feel the
> > warmth and
> > the beauty all the way up to southern Ohio.
> >
> > Thanks for the respite!
> >
> > Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> > Behalf
> > Of james singer
> > Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 8:16 AM
> > To: Chat
> > Subject: [CHAT] Winter & What's in Bloom
> >
> > Winter seems to have arrived. It has been getting down into the low 50s
> > at night recently. Still in the high 70s, low 80s in the afternoons,
> > though. And the air is very dry for a change.
> >
> > Lots of plants are blooming--or still blooming, especially the
> > allamandas, begonias, Mexican petunias [also called Florida bluebells],
> > ground orchids, crown of thorns, and various jatrophas. And the
> > poinsettias are beginning to color up.
> >
> > Most spectacular now, however, is the Turk's cap, Malvaviscus arboreus.
> > There is a house not far from the plantation that has a Turk's cap
> > hedge along the street; must be hundreds, if not thousands, of blooms
> > on it. Really spectacular.
> >
> > This is also our bedding plant season. The garden centers at Wal-Mart
> > and Home Depot are loaded with petunias, impatiens, marigolds,
> > crossandras, fibrous begonias, dianthus, and so on, as well as
> > vegetable and herb plants.
> >
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