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- Subject: OT: weather or not
- From: "* G* C* <j*@cox.net>
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:05:20 -0500
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One of our group, in a separate correspondence,
asked how things are going in my iris world. The answer is that we have
had a record cold winter here, with two 2-foot snow falls. The first
brought two of my neighbor's 45-50-ft tall Leland cypresses down on my house and
iris beds. The second brought down five more. (You can see some of
the remaining trees standing behind my house in the second photo.) While
the worst damage to the house appears to be a broken window and some eaves
knocked loose, a tool shed also collapsed, along with a broken fence, a
semi-destroyed pretty dogwood, and the extent of damage to individual
plants as yet unknown. Oil lamps, candelabras and the fireplace saved
the day when power went out. (Remember that when you hear the greenies
inveigh against fireplaces.) A young neighbor went up on the roof and
removed the heavy snow from my chimney cap, so the flu would operate. My
son and a daughter each live about an hour's drive away (when the roads are
clear). It took Nate 3 days, working with a snow blower, to clear his long
driveway. Laura and her husband, at the end of a tiny side
street, were marooned in their home for 8 days. On the morning of the
eighth, her drive finally having been cleared the evening before, Laura headed
for work, only to find that a snow plow had buried the entrance to their
street.
As for the irises as a whole, the long deprivation
of sunlight and prolonged freezing temperatures has had a significant retarding
effect. In an ordinary year, I would by now have the plants groomed, fed
and sprayed, and be looking forward to the MDBs popping out in a couple of
weeks. This year, the plants as yet show no sign of new growth, hence are
not yet able to be groomed.
To give you an idea of
how abnormal things are, I've attached, besides a couple of
snow-buried beds and downed-trees shots, a photo of markers sunk into the
soil to their labels by the weight of the (finally melted) snow. These are
15" rose markers, which usually stand 9 or 10 inches tall. In an ordinary
freeze-thaw-
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