Re: CULT: White Pine not shortleafed?
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- Subject: Re: CULT: White Pine not shortleafed?
- From: r* <t*@catskill.net>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 19:57:02 -0700 (MST)
william b. cook wrote:
>
> >
> > the trouble is that all the pine needles are under the snow as well as
> > the irises. I didn't collect in time.
> > Rima terra@catskill.net
> > upstate ny zone 4
>
> Rima,
> Your plants will still be all right. The snow will act as a natural
> mulch, thus insulating the plants. The only problem would be if the snow
> melted, then the weather turned sharply colder. If the snow does melt,
> mulch then. If the snow remains all winter, the plants will be fine as are
> under the blanket of snow.
>
> Mark A. Cook
> billc@atlantic.net
> Dunnellon, FL.
thanks Mark--
I never worried about it until I read all this stuff about mulching tbs
over the winter. I didn't mulch last year and my new bed bloomed it's
little heart out this summer.
Rima
