Re: Meserve Hollies
At 06:12 PM 20.11.00 -0500, Bobbi Diehl wrote:
>I can add to Gail's remarks. When we bought Blue Angel and whatever the
>male equivalent was, it was on the glowing recommendation of one of our
>best local nurserymen, who spoke as if these shrubs were the greatest
>thing to come along. After they all died miserable deaths he confessed
>that he had simply HEARD about them and thought they sounded good, so he
>decided to carry them for the first time. He has not had them since that
>year.
---- well - in that case the nursery usually would had to pay the people
the money back here in Norway, or give new plants of any kind - isn't that
common by you?
On the other hand he could been honest and told people that "this plant is
interesting, but not tried, you may report back if it works ok, if it dies
out you get your money back ...etc " - and in a way get it tried out around
in the district?
- a gardening friend of mine use to have a lot of different signatures, and
here is one:
"If you are not killing plants, you are not really
stretching yourself as a gardener."
- J. C. Raulston
But it is not good to be kind of 'fooled' by the nusery! But maybe he was
fooled too by the wholesale seller?
On the other hand I can't understand why nuseries do this because there are
so many beautiful plant out there hardy enough, it is not neccissary to
walk on the climate borders all the time, or even on the wrong side!? Must
be bad for the business?
.......so to climate:
>I don't know if he sells the Chinas or Princess/Prince.
------> I don't see any differences between my Princess and Angel in
hardiness, but ... then of course we come back to this regarding winter
climate, maybe mine is too mild to come out with differences between them.
You are right Bobbi, temperatures here where I live (Hardanger - a fjord in
south west coast) does not get much beyond zero Farenheit - it in fact
never does! It more dance up and down a few degrees around zero Celsius and
that means the freezing point.
Our 0*C = freezing point as is 32 *F, and minimum seldom come under -5 to
-7*C (23 to 19,5*F), then we
really are freezing here along the coast because of humid climate and maybe
no snow. And anything under -10*C (14*F) is kind of extreme, I think the
coldest messured here ever is around -18*C ?(-4*F), but this is not in my
time of memory
-thanks to Bob and Paul about temperatures Celsius to Farenheit - now I
used the libary when telling you this :)
regards
Arnhild .. with +8.9*C (= 48*F) outside this morning (more than normal,
but not unusual) ... strange to compare isn't it .. and I am still
gardening every day .. planting bulbs and babybushes ... no - this is
certainly not northpole! Tho' many people think Norway is colder than cold
... but not here by the sea where I live, of course it is snow on mountains
around ...
