Re: Wishes
Cali Doxiadis wrote:
> A Happy New Year to everyone with rain when it's needed and and sun the
> rest of the time , except for cold and drought when due to cradle
> dormancies.
> Cali Doxiadis
Happy New Year ( and millennia) to Glenn, Cali and all you wonderful
sharing gardeners. Please, please send us in Southern California some of
your rain! The soil is bone dry down as far as I can dig!
While all the TV casters are bragging about our "good weather", gardeners
are worrying about another drought with rising water prices and
rationing. Even the medit. climate plants need something in the winter!
I'm into pruning roses now. In Southern California, this means picking
every last leaf off the plant and cleaning away everything underneath,
including the mulch. So I'm always happy at this time that I don't have
many roses. However, they would be hard to give up altogether; I just
couldn't do it! The price gardeners pay for a mild climate is that every
rose disease and pest overwinters and goes right along with it's own
(multiple) life cycles. In fact the aphids are rampant and feeding in this
70 degree F. weather. So we must prune, clean, and wash everything. Then
spray with light horticultural oil before adding new mulch! But I love
the look of the garden when it is all done. One never sees that clean
spare look again!
May you all have a healthy new year with vision, vigor and strength to
bring your dream of "this year's garden" to reality! Jan
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Jan Smithen,
Upland, California
jansmithen@earthlink.net
Sunset zone : 19
USDA zone : 10
http://home.earthlink.net/~jansmithen/
Visit the Los Angeles County Arboretum
Victorian Rose Garden website at:
http://victorian-rose.org/
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