Re: Thanks for Cloud-Cover Info

On Sat, 26 Dec 1998 18:22:30 GMT, you wrote:

>Katherine: Many thanks for lucid explanation of what Cloud-Cover is
[snip]
>magic-in-a-bottle, in the hope that they can tell me if there's a UK
>equivalent.

Tim SBK used to do something similar, it was basically a transplanting
spray and was widely used on Christmas trees to prevent them shedding
needles when brought indoors.  I think you can still get it.

>Hope CA is now over the worst of its weather. Here, the old year's
[snip]
>deaths, since the winds have been our usual relatively mild
>sou'westerlies. 

Yes they're coming up from my end and although it is distinctly
uncomfortable and with 70 mile an hour winds, at least it remains well
into the upper 50's by day and upper 40's by night.  Only a couple of
nights so far this year with temps slightly below freezing for an hour
or so.  A pair of young Gardenias have survived well  and are looking
very healthy while Hedychium gardnerianum is opening its fleshy
coloured pods to reveal scarlet, berry like seeds.   Lots of thumb
thick, fat young shoots coming up from the base as well.  Jasminum
polyanthum is in flower and Diascia patens is full of bud, ready to
open in a few weeks.  I read that orange. lemon and tangerine growers
have virtually lost all of their crops because of the severe weather
on the west coast.  Must be terrible.  I just hope it doesn't track
across this far.

Dave Poole
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