CULT: weather and Botrytis

John's comments on Botrytis rot in Utah (I'd add to the thread, but I lost
it) are making me a bit nervous.   The conditions here today sound awfully
like his mud on top of frozen ground with the temps in the 30s and 40s.
These are conditions I haven't seen since the winter of '94, and I wasn't
paying enough attention then to what survived it.  Anyway, the eight or nine
inches of snow we had at Christmas all melted yesterday and today, and the
driveway keeps trying to eat whatever cars try to reach the house.  Good
thing we don't get many visitors.  But the really odd thing is that I found
buds breaking on my lilacs this evening.  EEEEP.  Don't do that, honeys!  Go
back to sleep.  It's a real surprize considering how cold it was up until
yesterday.  But I suppose their minimum chilling requirement has been met,
and with 50-degree weather today, they are blithely putting out little
serrated green edges.  They'll be sorry.  At least the irises still look
more or less dormant, and I sure hope all this cold wet ground isn't going
to do them in.

Barb in Santa Fe
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