Re: Memo to Mother Nature
- Subject: Re: Memo to Mother Nature
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 21:32:37 EDT
In a message dated 4/15/02 4:36:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, barp@idcnet.com
writes:
<< I second that, Ma Nature, I still have oak leaves to get out of the shrubs,
and in Wisconsin, it suddenly is close to 90 degrees in the sun today!!!!! >>
Barb,
It was that hot here as well. Drove me out of the garden in the sunny areas.
You can literally stand still and see the garden grow while mentally listing
all that needs to be done.
You cannot know the frustration of ice to 90 degrees in week until you have
some of this frustration in your garden.
Some years ago, I stopped planting any small bulbs because the season was so
short and often the weather so bad you did not enjoy them. Then we had a few
warmer years and I forgot about the cold and icy rain destroying them so
planted some again.
One should never be close minded about the garden but I think these little
bulbs are going bye-bye again. Up, beat up by cold rains, lying in the mud
and then fair game for the mice. Daffodils are the best best here, bless the
many varieties available to us. Tulips are for indoor forcing for me.
Today was a hot one, two years ago on April 12 we got twelve inches of heavy
wet snow. That was followed by very cold wind and killed every seedling in
the garden house.
Spring in the northern zones - a crapshoot. This unexpected heat is going
to hurry along the daffodils - I am not happy about that.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
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