Re: Explaining ones local climate
Tim Longville wrote:
>
> >I find this a very easy climate to live with, but it does limit somewhat
> >the plants one can grow, being too cool in the summer for the warm
> >temperates and sub- tropicals and too warm and wet in winter for the
> >alpines.
>
> Yes, agreed. And I take the 'easy to live with' to apply to humans as
> well as to plants - though I sometimes think enviously about climates
> with really long hot dry seasons, I know that in practice I become
> fractious and mournful and take to my bed if faced with relentless sun
> and blue skies.
Actually the "easy" part applied more to the humans than the plants,
though there are enough species which do well here to keep me happy
anyway.
Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata,
New Zealand (astride the "Ring of Fire" in the SW Pacific).
