Re: Drought sympathy

Dear All

My heart goes out to all of you who are suffering from this excessive
drought. We've just had 3 weeks without rain and with (for us!) very high
temperatures(low 30's) and we were complaining!
However we've now had a week of unsettled weather (it knew there was an
eclipse happening, I swear) which has stopped the need for so much watering
but when I dig a hole it is still pretty dusty. Cornwall has one of the
highest rainfall in Britain but as my garden is 90% stone it quickly dries
out in summer. But all of this is as nothing compared with what we hear
about the drought over there. I'll try to remember this in mid November when
it hasn't stopped raining for a month.
I would love to be able to help out with plants for those of you who are
losing them hand over fist but that might not be too practical. But I don't
see why we couldn't help out with seeds, maybe, unless there are import
restrictions. Does anyone know?
You have all my sympathy, I know how hearting-breaking it is to lose one
plant, let alone a whole gardenful.

Wishing you lots of rain,

Tracy Wilson. Cornwall.
-----Original Message-----
From: Marge Talt <mtalt@clark.net>
To: perennials@mallorn.com <perennials@mallorn.com>
Date: 11 August 1999 04:46
Subject: Re: Special drought event was: can't water...need help!


>In fact, drought is so much on everyone's mind this summer that Carol
>Wallace, Managing Editor for the garden section on Suite101 has put up a
>special event called Focus:  Dealing With Drought...at last count there
>were about 38 articles concerning drought in some way on it, by various
>editors, as well as some useful links.  It's slated to run thru 9/1 and
>more articles can be added as and when they are written.   URL to the Event
>main page is:  http://suite101.com/event.cfm/87
>
>I haven't had a chance to read all of them yet, but there's a lot of good
>information up that might help some of you deal with this awful dry period.
>
>Marge
>whose garden is drooping; whose soil is like concrete and who is doing rain
>dances every spare moment.   Who'd have ever thought we'd hope for a
>hurricane?
>
>Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
>mtalt@clark.net
>Editor:  Gardening in Shade
>current article:Vines - Part 1
>http://suite101.com/welcome.cfm/222
>All garden topics welcome page:
>http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/3425#top5
>
>----------
>> From: MurfsMomma@aol.com
>> Date: Saturday, August 07, 1999 10:39 AM
>>
>> Here is an article from Suite 101 that addresses the drought situation -
>> drastic measures, for sure, but maybe good advice for those who are
>really
>> being hit the hardest.
>>
>>  <A
>>
>HREF="http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/virtually_gardening/23590">Drough
t
>
>> Gardening: Going Into Emergency Mode - Suite101.com</A>
>>
>> Good luck, and I will join those willing to share to help out if I can.
>>
>> Pam Adkins
>> Houston/Navasota
>> Z9/8b
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@mallorn.com with the
>> message text UNSUBSCRIBE PERENNIALS
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@mallorn.com with the
>message text UNSUBSCRIBE PERENNIALS
>

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@mallorn.com with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE PERENNIALS
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index