RE: iris lifespan - Iris setosa

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Mark,

 

Things are going okay since the warmth has not melted the scant bit of snow that we have had ( and very unlike the 13 FEET we had last winter.)  It has been raining off and on for the past month!  (Which, of course, it is not suppose to do here in January or February!)  If you all (in the Lower 48 states) are cold, then we are warm and visa versa…. The Jet Stream rules.

 

As for getting “dry” here, I should say that is a relative term.  J  We are considered “Semi-Arid” when talking about precipitation since Anchorage only averages 12 to 16 inches (of water) per year.  The winters are very dry, and if it is cold it is even dryer.  If it snows during very cold weather the water equivalent of one inch can be 12 to 14” of snow.  If the air temperature is just near freezing the snow is much heavier and has much more water per inch of snow.  Because our air is so dry (even though we are near the ocean) 50*F here does not feel as cold as 50*F did in Kentucky when I lived there for awhile.  The Kentucky winters chilled me to the bone even though the winter temperatures were not that far from our summer night temperatures that I go camping in and garden.  Relative humidity makes a difference.  (I do not remember why I diverged into the above ….)

 

The “dry” areas I was thinking about are mostly in commercial landscapes situations (that I used to work with) near or in parking lots, or at my home under a limbed-up lilac.  Yes, you are right.  I do not have “dry” like the “dry” the folks in droughty areas have to deal with.  Now that is a DRY that I have never had to endure.

 

I think I am getting too tired to make much sense.  Good Night.

 

Debbie