Re styrofoam sheets for putting over plants to protect them.:may be cheaper at Home Depot than at a Garden Center. Approximately 18 x 48 x 3/4" with 5 or 6 in a package for about 4.00. Held down with bricks and let the snow pile up. They protected oncocylus and things needing extra protection. from the time of the first snow/freeze until April 4 here in the Chicago area. One can also cut them up with a sharp knife. and use pieces over and over again. Adam in USDA Zone 5a--Glenview, IL ----- Original Message ----- From: <totototo@telus.net> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 1:06 PM Subject: Re: [pbs] Some frits are waking up > On 1 Mar 2009, at 11:26, Jane McGary wrote: > >> I'm very pleased that the measures I went to to protect the plants in >> December, when the temperature dropped to 14 F (minus 10 C) were >> effective. > > Would you be so kind as to repeat what those measures were? > >> The garden, however, is still in winter, with very little in flower other >> than crocuses, snowdrops, and eranthis; also some early corydalis. > > Much the same here in Victoria, though the eranthis are well into the > "going > over" stage and no corydalis in evidence. > >> . . . no one will feel compelled to point out the weeds (there are very >> few >> of those in evidence yet, either). > > Ah. weeds! It seems like every garden has its own selection and every > gardener > their own pet peeves among the weeds. Although I'm only about a mile and a > half > from the house I lived in until 1988, there are weeds here that I never > saw > there: Plantago major, Solanum nigrum(?), that horrible little > yellow-flowerd, > red-leaved oxalis. But both gardens harbor the one I most dislike, > popweed. > It's a Cardamine species, but I can't ascertain which one. I've already > started > this year's round of weeding it out; just in time, as some of the plants > have > already formed flower buds and are showing color. > > > -- > Rodger Whitlock > Victoria, British Columbia, Canada > Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate > on beautiful Vancouver Island > > http://maps.google.ca/maps/… > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/