Welwitschia, a source for

Alberto Castillo ezeizabotgard@hotmail.com
Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:44:01 PST

I was always surprised at how confident bulb growers in the Bay Area region were of the killing power of frosts over there.
We have experienced a couple of "Arctic Express" visits in the past and this is why we have tunnels on the pots of tender species for the winter. No more surprises....

> Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 19:34:43 -0800
> From: maxwithers@gmail.com
> To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [pbs] Welwitschia, a source for
> 
> A salutary reminder from another hemisphere, Alberto. As is the great
> freeze of 1972, when temperatures dropped below 30 F for 3 days
> straight, and which began 40 years ago tomorrow.
> 
> (As a native New Englander, I find such figures laughable as do, I'm
> sure, many of our members from less hospitable climes, but as a
> California gardner I certainly do not).
> 
> Best,
> Max
> Oakland
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Randall P. Linke <randysgarden@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The occasional big freeze is what all of us here fear the most.
> >
> > Randy
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Alberto Castillo
> > <ezeizabotgard@hotmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> One of the largest bulb collections ever asembled (in Concord) was
> >> exterminated by frost in 1991.
> >>
> >>
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