Re: OT-BIO Helen Crotty

Thanks for the welcomes from Dorothy Gordon, Mark Cook, and the Santa Fe
resident whose message I unfortunately lost before I wrote down the name
(please write again).   =


Mark, good luck with your THORNBIRD  in Florida.  Just for fun, I got out=

all my illustrated catalogues this morning to compare pictures of
THORNBIRD.  Certainly wouldn't guess that the example in the Schreiner's
catalogue is the same flower as on the AIS Bulletin cover.  It appears mu=
ch
yellower and seems to have horns (one possibly forked) rather than spoons=

or flounces.  Cooley's, Stockton Gardens, and Comanche Acres are less
yellow than the Schreiner illustration but less violet than the cover
picture, and they all seem to have forked horns or very small spoons or
flounces.   I understand that the space agers are inconsistent, and I
noticed last spring that my Triffed had space age features in its first
bloom, but lacked some or all  in later blooms  on the same stem. =


Hi Dorothy.  Sorry, but I won't be showing with NMIS--I'm 2000 feet highe=
r
than Albuquerque and didn't have a single bloom at the time of this year'=
s
show.  That's why I also joined the Santa Fe society.

Ross, you say you don't get killer cold in Santa Fe.  How cold do you get=
? =

What is killer cold?  Seems to me that the 17-degree F nights we've had =

from time to time do a pretty good job of killing off the annuals.  We do=

get down to zero and below occasionally here.   The coldest we measured w=
as
17below, in 1982-83, our first winter here after moving from coastal
California.  =


Helen Crotty, USDA Zone 5, Sunset Zone 2, 35 miles east of Albuquerque an=
d
35 miles southwest of Santa Fe.   Today's weather:
cloudy/foggy/snowy/rainy, 41degrees at noon, 20s last night.  =
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