Re: too hot
Hello! Surely you have it hot - 112 degree F is about 44 degree C!
Here in Denmark we allso have some extra hot days just now; but
´only´ 88 degree F.
Regards
Kaj Dorstenia
Copenhagen
----- Original message -----
Fra: Julie <jaknelson@shastalink.k12.ca.us>
Til: medit-plants <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Sendt: 11. juli 1999 18:33
Emne: too hot
> Yesterday reached 112 degrees F. here (someone Celsius-literate can
perhaps
> make the conversion for me?). Today's forecast is several degrees
hotter;
> last night cooled down to the 70's. While out watering this
morning, I
> broke a sweat at 7 a.m. and decided this would be a good day for a
picnic in
> the Cascade Mountains. So we'll pack up and head for Medicine Lake,
a
> lovely spot in the caldera of an old shield volcano at about 6000
ft. elev.
> (roughly 2000m), with a pumice beach and surrounded by lodgepole
pine (P.
> contorta).
> My Hemerocallis are getting sunburned, but some other plants are
still
> perky--"little mermaid' rose, Verbena bonariensis, Buddleias, and a
stunning
> Vitex agnus-castus tree in full flower. Another favorite is
Hunnemania,
> which I like better than our similar native California poppy
(Eschscholtzia
> cal.). The 'water willie' in our little pond (my young son's name
for it)
> keeps pumping out gorgeous flowers. Perovskia and Caryopteris are
unfazed.
>
>
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- From: "Julie" <jaknelson@shastalink.k12.ca.us>
