Re: What's still blooming Z5?
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- Subject: Re: What's still blooming Z5?
- From: "* <z*@email.msn.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 22:00:41 -0800
Still blooming on Long Island, Coreopsis - double sunburst, apricot colored
california poppies, and still a few tomatos........ Two little white straw
flowers........And Im still hunting under all those leaves as I cart them
off to the compost.....
-----Original Message-----
From: Sheila Craig <sheila_craig@qmail.newbridge.com>
To: ML-Perennials <perennials@mallorn.com>
Date: Monday, November 10, 1997 1:55 PM
Subject: What's still blooming Z5?
>The mailing list is getting kinda slow - I guess the gardeners are going
>dormant with their gardens!
>
>A rudbeckia I planted this summer is still putting out new flowers (slowly,
>but surely). It got going late and I guess the 5-10 degree C highs we've
been
>getting for the past couple of weeks are enough to keep it going, despite
the
>nightly frost. It even survived having 20 cms of snow dumped on it for a
week.
> A cold front is heading our way, though. I think this is _really_ the end
of
>the garden for the year. The only other things still showing colour are my
>baby calluna vulgaris (oh, I hope they survive the winter) and one sedum
>spectabilis that was sheltered enough that the snow didn't flatten it.
>
>What's blooming in your gardens?
>
>-Sheila
>Ottawa, Canada
>Zone 4/5
>
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