Re: CULT: inevitable March freeze

Donna, I just experience what's going on outside from a safe distance.  I'm
curled up in a blanket most of the time in a recliner watching the
indoor/outdoor thermometer and listening to the wind chimes while reading iris
catalogs and R&I information

I did get MACHISMO from Barry Blyth, and it is growing happily in a big pot
behind my computer equipment.  I don't think I'm going to set it out for a few
days....but on some of the warmer afternoons I have set it outside for a while
to get a taste of northern hemisphere light and air.  I've never thought of
irises as house plants and don't want to do this often.  It probably will stay
in the pot for most of the next month.

This wind and the forecsst for tomorrow morning continue.  We have some
protection from 800-1000 foot "mountains" both north and south of where we
live, and a sheltered cove (now going to multi-million dollar houses and a
golf course) to our west.  Despite the protection we still get winds at about
half the velocities reported at the airport, just 2 1/2 miles SW of us.  The
temps do drop right with the airport, though.  We rarely are more than a
degree or two warmer when it's quiet, a degree or so colder in wind.

The forecast for Tuesday morning is 21 degrees.  The irises are far enough
along to get some modest damage, I suppose.  Year after year!  At least they
stayed more or less dormant all winter and look more content than usual.

And I thought the Idaho/Oregon border was bad!  We never had as much damage to
bloom there as is happening year after year here.

The reticulatas and crocus are gone--lasting about a day to two days each
because of wind--just sucked the life out of them.  It may be a while before
the SDB's pick up the progression.

On Iris-species there's a discussion running on climate and climate change.
One remark about all that is that I can add is that as global warming
progresses, so does instability and erratic change increase.

Neil Mogensen   z sub-arctic "7" in western NC

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