Re: CULT: Heat Zone Map
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: Heat Zone Map
- From: C* &* R* S*
- Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 19:57:10 -0500
From: "Cliff & Rita Snyder" <snyder@eden.com>
Donald,
It feels like heat zone 10 right now! Our oven-like south wind has been
sucking all remaining moisture from the soil. As for the pears, I really
like a nice field full of pink blooms as long as it's someone elses field!
Cliff Snyder Zone 8
www.rainbowfarms.net Bartlett, Tx
-----Original Message-----
From: Donald Eaves <donald@eastland.net>
To: iris-talk@onelist.com <iris-talk@onelist.com>
Date: Saturday, June 05, 1999 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: Heat Zone Map
>From: "Donald Eaves" <donald@eastland.net>
>
>Yeah Dennis,
>>
>> Donald, just grow cactus. :)
>>
>I do! They come up naturally in the yard. Many of the little cob cactus
>and a similar one have made it into the edge of the flower beds, including
>the iris beds and do quite well. Also have moved a couple of Devil's
>Pincushion cactus to the edge of the iris beds. Beautiful blooms, on all
>but they don't last long. Yesterday the yard had quite a few iridescent
>pink blooms scattered over it from one of the little cactus barrels.
>However,
>the most persistant is prickly pear and that gets composted. I gather one
>to two buckets a year of these while they are still little fellows. These
>have
>pretty blooms as well, but are too unmanageable for me to fool with.
>
>Donald Eaves
>donald@eastland.net
>Texas Zone 7
>
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