songs of ice and fire... Last June my nursery burned to the ground. I lost three greenhouses. Virtually every plant in or near the greenhouses was destroyed. Only the plants on tables in the yard made it through unscathed. I also lost every piece of equipment, every tool, every supply and a house and garage. (We were not living there.) I had two decades of work in some of those lost plants. I had special forms that no longer exist anywhere. Plants will break your heart. One just has to carry on. Pamela (Seattle) On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 6:52 AM, Nicholas plummer <nickplummer@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Bob, > > Sorry to hear about the lycoris. It would be incredibly discouraging to > lose the product of nine years effort. Similar to your Oxalis, I left a > pot of Agapanthus seedlings outside all winter and am amazed to see that > they survived the winter. Seed came off a plant growing at Disney World. > > I'm Orange County, near Hillsborough, but we seem to be in a chilly > microclimate. We often have snow when Chapel Hill and Durham get rain. I > don't have a garage and the greenhouse is overcrowded, so my living room is > currently full of summer growing bulbs that overwintered in the crawl space > and had been outside during the past few weeks -- I really jumped the gun. > Should have left them to sleep until later in April. I figure my wife's > tolerance for stepping around pots will only last a few more days, so > hopefully Saturday's freeze will be the last. > > Nick > > > > On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Robert Pries <robertpries@embarqmail.com> > wrote: > > > Nicholas: I feel your pain! I live in Roxboro, NC where the Raliegh news > > media comes to take pictures of snow each winter. When I first moved here > > the temperatures were zone 8 for a couple of years but recent winters > have > > put us back into zone 7. When I moved here I had an extensive breeding > > program with Lycoris (ongoing for 9 years) and another with Zephyranthes. > > But one harsh winter wiped me out. The Lycoris would have made it but for > > the fact they were all in pots. > > > > We had the same freaky weather as you this week. I am not sure where you > > are in NC. The Lorapetulums lost their flowers and new growth but other > > than some new pots fresh from Lowes of Hydrangia the the Hydrangia in the > > ground were fine. All around me people reported 27 degrees F. but it > seems > > my hilltop must have shed much of the coldest air. The Crinums look OK. > > > > Before the cold I moved a couple hundred pots of various bulbs into my > > garage and plan to keep them there until Sunday. Saturday night may be > the > > last freeze, I hope. Your venting gave me some encouragement. Sometimes > it > > seems that gardening is barely worth the effort. I am still mourning the > > nine years of Lycoris breeding lost a few years back, but I should have > > brought those pots in. I feel this time I at least partly dodged the > > bullet. I can not wait to bring out the several hundred bulb pots that > are > > dormant in my basement, mostly caladiums and achimines. Of special note, > I > > left about a dozen pots of Oxalis triangularis out and they weathered the > > cold with no damage. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >