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purple lupins

Dear Loren et al,
Thank you for your answers.   I had to reward someone for a fun thing in
Suite101 and only had lupins and another left from seed gathering from
the country garden.  She wouldn't take 6 peafowl as her prize!! 
Our weather pattern, in Tasmania, continues to be most odd.  Snow has
greeted Spring in some parts of N America, here our temps are up in the
80s, 90s for our usually mild Autumn days.  Bush fires are a daily
occurence [both gardens were slightly threatened within 2 weeks, a while
back] and Tassie has lost thousands of hect. of old growth forest as the
result.  The press writes that we miss out on the El Nino effect here,
in Tasmania, but we certainly have had a year of odd weather patterns.
Some plants have liked the warmest Winter and driest Winter and Autumn
[1997] on record, others are bewildered and so are spot flowering now
[Rhododendrons]  My gardens are becoming more and more a bone fide
member of this great e-mail group. 
The Asters, dahlias and strangely enough, the hydrangeas have never
flowered better.  The Autumn flush of roses are magnificent and the
black spot has never been so badly off.  And the weeds just love El Nino
or whatever.  So, I guess what you lose on the hurdy-gurdy, you gain on
the round-about.
Regards, Gay Klok  
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Gay Klok Tasmania
http://members.tripod.com/~klok/WRINKLY_.HTM 
http://www.suite101.com/topics/page.cfm/451
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