Re: OT-CHAT: Where's winter?


From: HIPSource@aol.com

In a message dated 1/2/00 10:13:19 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
Irisacher@aol.com writes:

<< I am watching rain pelt  down on the 3 inch (perhaps) snow cover we have 
left, and looking at the week's forecast, I'm afraid the ground will be 
completely thawed again by  week end.  This will mark the second complete 
frozen ground several inches down /completely thawed ground cycle we've had 
this winter, and this ain't 
good!  Puts those newly planted rhizome roots through all sort of gyrations.>>

Sounds like our winters here in Zone 7 Central, Virginia, in what some folks 
frustrated by their colder climes--my sister in Chicago for one-- tend to 
think is horticultural heaven. 

I've got heaving, dead rhizomes, burnt foliage and all the usual delights. 
Temperatures are predicted to break 70 the next two days with lows back in 
the mid-twenties by Thursday.  

I'm going to do the "chop up the Christmas trees found in the alley and put 
them on the irises" bit today. It gives one the feeling of not taking it all 
lying down. 

Anner Whitehead
HIPSource@aol.com

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