> Can't wait for spring.< Judy, Earnie; By the looks of the bird populations headed your way on Southerly winds, Spring weather is on the way to the I-95 corridor this coming week. Mark Mazer Hertford, NC On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Ernie DeMarie via pbs < pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> wrote: > Hi Judy et al, > Glad that some of the freesias made it, I have also noticed that some > South African geophytes take a snooze for a year even if watered during > their appropriate season, Walleria gracilis comes to mind as one I have had > do that. I also had cuttings of some succulent and decidious twiggy > pelargonium spp that I never got around to doing anything with, so they got > planted after missing their winter growing season and many of them survived > too. Some plants are just tough, adapted for that occasional severe > drought. > Winter's last gasp seems to have been Thursdays snowstorm plus the 2 cold > nights that followed,, after that it will all melt eventually and I dont > see really vicious cold anymore in the accuweather forecasts. What a > bizarre winter it has been, I thought last winter was as bad as it could > possibly get, but thi one, while off to a later start, was worse, at least > for February and the first week of March. But as a compensation snow cover > has been excellent, good for most plants but unfortunately could be good > for voles too. In about a week or so I think we will finally see the > eranthis and snowdrops that should have been up by the middle to end of > Feb. Can't wait for spring. > Ernie DeMarie > in a snow covered Briarcliff Manor with another sanity testing winter just > ending. I think I'll sow more seeds........ > Z7 that just barely crossed into Z6 territory once or twice this winter. > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >