Cold winter miscellany
Jane McGary (Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:11:36 PST)

Robin Hansen on the Oregon coast wrote,

20 degrees last night, although the temps have been in the mid-20s
for several nights. I don't have a thermometer in the poly house so
I don't >know what it went down to, but anything that was dark and
drooping, such as C. graecum perked back up by midday.

I didn't take the weather prediction seriously enough either, and I
expect I will lose hundreds of the plants that I potted up to move to
the new garden next summer. Some of them I will never be able to get
again. The bulb frames are closed but not blanketed, so probably
about 10 to 20 percent of the plants in there will die. The east wind
is howling, and it is adding so badly to the burden of all the
obligations I have this month that I wish I could just freeze and die
like the plants.

Jane McGary
Northwestern Oregon, USA