Re: what experience taught you that your climate was different?

On 12/30/2015 7:18 PM, Sean A. O'Hara wrote:
I am composing some thoughts for writing/speaking and would like to hear from some of you here. There was a moment in time when I realized that the climate in which I gardened was not the same as the climate that many garden writers talked about. As a young man, I was given a few bulbs of Arum palaestinum by a neighbor in my town (Santa Clara, CA). As I grew it for a few years, it was obvious that it was determined to go completely dormant each summer, regrowing afresh in the fall and over the winter, then flowering in spring as the leaves were dying down. I still have some of these bulbs over 40 years later! This was my first experience growing a decidedly mediterranean climate plant (though that term was not in common usage at the time). 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/hortulus_aptus/7091258775

Do any of you have similar stories?

Seán O.
http://about.me/seanaohara
i have only been gardening on this piece of land since 1991, and we -created our garden from bits and pieces as we grew to know it, some sun, some shade, we are partly in forest, this recent drought tells much i am still listening to, i compost everything and cherish what nature sends us -this recent rain especially -as for specifics: our herbs, fruit trees(older apples are still prolific,but the 5 yrs younger and citrus less so this year, even with our 2 grey wells, they got less water than before, our heirloom roses maintain so -i feel we are medit in some degree(our exposed oregano never dies back completely, and the herbs i keep on our south wall shelf, bay officianlis , peppermint geranium(pelargonium) and even a nasturtium survive through the winters, but it is an artful way to do so so we shall see:)
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