Re: Long weekend here, and...

I am jealous...nothing here at all.  Not even a flurry to get us in the
spirit!  Drat!  Happy Thanksgiving one and all!

Vera


On 11/23/05, Donna <gossiper@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> Hum.... it was snowing this morning, although it all melted this
> afternoon.
> Tomorrows high will feel like zero if we are lucky with the 45mph winds
> that
> are already here. Might see some lake effect snow as well :(
>
> It is a good thing to leave snags from dead trees, wonder if the animals
> and
> birds will use the queen palm like that - places to hide and stuff.
>
> Donna
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> > Behalf Of james singer
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 1:10 PM
> > To: Garden Chat
> > Subject: [CHAT] Long weekend here, and...
> >
> > off to a flying start.
> >
> > Chilly here today. 65 degrees. 79 forecast for tomorrow, which will be
> > nice. Maybe we'll have a BBQ.
> >
> > Been pruning fruit trees and shrubs today. Surinam cherry got a major
> > haircut. Rose apple got some lateral limbs lopped off. Grumichama,
> > which had grown to 7 feet in the last 18 months, got whacked back to 4
> > feet and I opened the area around it so it should get more sun and grow
> > more out than up.
> >
> > Asian scale did kill the old queen palm, so I removed all the dead
> > fronds and now there is just a forlorn five-stem trunk left. I'll
> > probably plant stuff [palms come to mind] around it to hide it rather
> > than try to pull it out. If I did pull it out, I'd have to use my truck
> > as an anchor for the come-along, and the I'd have a hunk of debris too
> > large for the recyclers to haul off, so I'd end up taking it to the
> > dump. Much easier to just disguise it and let it rot down over a few
> > years.
> >
> > Been meaning to ask our orchid farmers--Scottie, Cathy, Jim--about
> > cattleya orchids. Are they epiphytes? I tied an "orchid rescue"
> > cattleya to the trunk of a ponytail palm about 18 months ago. It is
> > putting out new growth in two or three places but no roots that I can
> > detect.
> >
> > That's the same ponytail that I gooped a "bulb" of a native orchid to a
> > couple of years ago. It is growing very well, has roots the nearly wrap
> > the ponytail's trunk, and is now a small cluster "bulbs". I halfway
> > expect it will bloom this coming winter-spring season.
> >
> > Island Jim
> > Southwest Florida
> > 27.0 N, 82.4 W
> > Hardiness Zone 10
> > Heat Zone 10
> > Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> > Maximum 100 F [38 C]
> >
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