CULT: freezes (was SPEC: douglasiana)
- Subject: CULT: freezes (was SPEC: douglasiana)
- From: L* M*
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 11:39:27 -0500
Bill Shear in zone 7a Virginia said:
<Seems like we dodged a bullet last night--the predicted low of 15 was
not
realized; my thermometer registered 23 at 5:30
AM. ...the extreme dryness ...has kept them
from being in as full growth as might have been
the case--in which a night
like last night could have been disastrous!>
Well, ptuii... it was about 15 here last night! Another benefit of the
lack of rain is that lack of cloud cover has let night temperatures fall
below freezing fairly often, so growth is not as tender as it would be
with warmer nights. I hope....
This is too early in the season for damage to iris flower stalk
primordia, still snugly undeveloped inside the rhizomes... [she says
wishfully...]. But not too early to do damage to foliage on the foolish
irises that had already started growing. Opportunity for spring rot....
Donald & others in Oklahoma & Texas - looks like you were in the
cross-hairs of this one...
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA also zone 7 (7a or 7b, or maybe 8
depending on the year)
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