Re: [SpaceAgeRobin] RE: Space Age Genetics

Donald, the system has blown in here too today, with a warning about SNOW and a close shave of 32 degrees here tonight if the forecast holds.  I just carried in all the houseplants that had happily been on the deck for three weeks or so, with the temps here getting up almost to 80 degrees.
 
The asparagus fern and the three Zygocactus plants look much happier from having been outdoors.  They had natural rain, and a lot of it twice in those weeks, and pot watering once in between.  One of them had been a fragment I found wilted and bruised on the grocery store floor.  I brought it home and buried three small pieces in a pot, only one of which survived.  It has grown so much that I had to repot it when I took it outdoors into a substantially larger pot.
 
I need to do the same with the larger ones.  They are outgrowing the deep 6" or 7" pots they have been in since being infant cuttings.
 
So you are not alone in wide weather swings.  Along with the snow advisory is a wind advisory.  The fine mist of rain has already started, and forecast to change to snow after about 8:00 tonight.  I hate to see this, as the SDB's are getting rolling, with Keppel's SHOCK having opened day before yesterday.  It is a beautiful near white and cream combination with delicate blue beard--almost the same in coloring to Dyer's SERENITY PRAYER, but a much fuller, heavier substanced flower. 
 
The long-in-the-tooth TANTARA has been putting on quite a show in two locations for more than a week.  I love its colors.
 
Even though I used to grow quite a few arils and AB's in Idaho, I haven't tried them here yet.  Betsy Higgins has offered me some to try out in my location to see if they will thrive here.  I told her last year to wait--but now I'm willing to take the plunge.  I have few places where I can control rains and lack thereof, so AB's may or may not be happy.  I keep seeing entries in the shows in Hendersonville, so the general area seems to be amenable to their success.
 
I sure have enjoyed your posts to Iris-photos.  Those are some entrancingly beautiful beauties.
 
Neil Mogensen  z 7  Reg 4  western NC mountains

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