RE: Summer and Winter
- To: "m*@ucdavis.edu" <m*@ucdavis.edu>
- Subject: RE: Summer and Winter
- From: T* D* <t*@xtra.co.nz>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 18:57:31 +1200
Susan George wrote:
>It has been an odd winter so far here - not all that cold yet (a kind of
>Indian Winter maybe) - is that the same with other Southern Hemisphere
>gardeners??
It is the same here near Wellington. Friends of ours on the coast visited
on Saturday and brought us a nice bouquet of assorted roses from their
garden! For our Northern Hemisphere friends, that is equivalent to roses
blooming in January. I expect to see some of my Azaleas and Rhododendrons
in bloom at this time of year, but not roses. Nor can I ever remember
getting so late into the year without ever seeing any snow on the nearby
mountains, which are well over 1000 metres high. Normally by now we would
have seen some on the hills at around 600 metres or less, and in some
winters we would have even had some snow at our altitude of a mere 250
metres.
Tim Dutton
"Raindrops", Main Road North, Kaitoke, Upper Hutt, New Zealand
(Latitude 41? 5' South, Longitude 175? 10' East)
