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. > >> > >> > > -- > > * * > > A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial > > appearance of being right. - Thomas Paine --- > > * > > * > > _______________________________________________ > > pbs mailing list > > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/