RE: new topic - SI popularity
- Subject: RE: [sibrob] new topic - SI popularity
- From: "Robert Dickow" d*@uidaho.edu
- Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:31:27 -0700
- Importance: Normal
I'm not sure how to make Sibbies more popular... if my growing situation is
at all common. I have been quite an enthusiast, with many clones in my
garden, and the well-established ones do fine even now. Eveybody knows the
siberians like water, especially while young. But over the past decade we
have had less and less water and higher and higher water bills here in north
Idaho (in the panhandle 'Palouse' region, right on the Washington border,
zone 5, about 90 miles south-southeast of Spokane). Residents are no longer
allowed to water during the day. Our aquifer has been dropping 17 inches per
year quite consistently for several decades. I planted xerophytes and native
plants in spots, in response to a city sponsored public education campaign.
The xerophytes have gradually perished (first to go were the Echinaceas).
So... I am pretty much going for spurias, which can do with a minimum of
water after the bloom season.
So... I guess I've just made a plug to make SPUs more popular. ;-)
Don't tell the real estate developers here about this. They keep building
new homes for all the Californians moving up here to get the fresh air. But
the forecast is that in 30 years we may be a ghost town.
Bob Dickow
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Subject: [sibrob] new topic - SI popularity
Hello everyone!
I am going to throw out a general topic to get activity.
How do we make sibs more popular?
From my view point it is about availability. I run into a number of people
who see new hybrids and want them and have no source, specifically non-mail
order source for them.
Bill
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