Re: loquat and Lompoc, etc.
Karl Hoover wrote:
>
> At 06:23 PM 3/15/99 -0800, Joseph L. Seals wrote:
> >...[the Loquat]seems to be much hardier than people think. A
> >recent hard freeze here in Lompoc and Santa Maria (17-19 F)
> >did no damage whatsover to any older trees.
>
> Isn't Lompoc right on the Pacific? (I drove through there once.)
> I wonder how in the world it gets so cold there, while here
> in San Jose, what, 200 miles north, 20 miles from the Ocean
> it only went down to maybe 25F, curious.
Surprising, yes! But the freak cold front that came here in December
evidently was at it's worst in southern San Luis Obispo County and
northern Santa Barbara County (between Morro Bay and Point Conception).
Lompoc, south of me here in Santa Maria, had the worst. Oddly enough, I
was on vacation with family in Inverness (north of SF) at the time and
we were subjected to seriouos cold (12 F!). The communities just south
and east of us had SNOW including at the Golden Gate Bridge. So,
although it was colder in other parts of California at the same time,
the freeze did its worst damage in areas where gardeners thought they
lived in the tropics. [I'll send in my freeze report in a couple of
weeks.]
More surprising, just this last Monday, we had snow just south of me
(and east of Lompoc) in Santa Ynez.
Mother Nature is funny, yes?
> pocket gophers (Thomomys sp.)
In San Jose, I would think this is T. bottae.
>
> karl.
