Re: update on wind, mystery tree
Good luck on your garden tour Julie. Hope this heat wave abates for you and
wish I could be there to see your garden. Believe me, I know how much work goes
into getting ready. Right now you're wishing you'd not agreed to do it! But,
after it's all over and the complements are ringing in your ears, you'll be
pleased and so will your family.
Please write us about it afterwards.
Regards, Jan
Julie wrote:
> Well, it looks like today is the day the grass will turn brown. We're
> expecting temp. of 100 degrees F. and a 15 mile-per-hour north wind. The
> mystery tree I described a couple weeks ago turned out to be Ulmus alata,
> winged elm, native to eastern N. America. Must have been brought by the
> homesteaders.
> The garden tour is two weeks from today, and the whole family must be out of
> town for the week prior to the event. The children are feeling abused,
> forced to do slave labor on the weekend. The adults are feeling anxious and
> crabby.
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> Julie Kierstead Nelson
> Redding, far northern inland California, USA
> USDA zone 9, Sunset zones 7/9 margin
> ****HOT summers****
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Jan Smithen, gardening teacher
Los Angeles County Arboretum
jansmithen@earthlink.net
Sunset zone : 19
USDA zone : 10
http://home.earthlink.net/~jansmithen/
Visit the Victorian Rose Garden website at :
http://victorian-rose.org/
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