Re: MED: Pumila, spots
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- Subject: Re: MED: Pumila, spots
- From: A* R* <a*@austx.tandem.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:10:09 -0700 (MST)
> Contray to what you may have been hearing, the Standard Dwarfs do not
> need as much cold as you may think. As you know I am in Zone 8 and I
> grow 123 SDB's from hybridiziers around the country. I wish you could
> be here to see my bloom this year. I have them in two rows each 160
> feet long. They are ablaze with color and nearing peak.
>
> Pitter Patter is a nice new SDB from Bill Maryott. It is white with a
> contrasting blue spot. Covers itself with blooms. Bred in warm climate
> San Jose, CA. Zone 8 maybe 9.
Are these plants at all influenced by the fact that at night in the
Southeast we don't cool down below 75-80 degrees and that many plants
simply cannot make it through that prolonged period of no rest and ever
present transpiration / lack of time to store food?
That's the difference between the east and the west. Oh, and with San
Jose -- they don't see many humid 90-100 degree days. We've already hit
steamy high 80's here, and I don't think San Jose has.
--
Amy Moseley Rupp
amyr@austx.tandem.com, Austin, TX, zone 8b
*or* amyr@mpd.tandem.com
Jill O. *Trades, Mistress O. {}
