We hear about some of that extreme weather in the U.S. (and a bit less extreme in central and eastern Canada)-- hope everyone comes through okay, and good luck to all those waiting for electricity to be restored! .. but here next to the Alberta foothills, the late spring and early summer has been cool and wet-- I didn't even have to water small seedpots outdoors, probably since late May, until the day before yesterday, and then yesterday it rained again several times.. If the forecast holds, from Wednesday on we will have several days of sun and temps above 20C- even a 27 forecast, first of the year! (68F-80F)... guess I'll be watering those seedpots ;) Cohan West Central Alberta, Canada, Zone 2-3 record temps from 10-20 miles away: min -45C/-49F;max 34C/93F http://picasaweb.google.com/cactuscactus
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 10:25 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > Hi Elin, > > Friend Glen in MI emailed that he has not had a drop of rain for two > months, whereas counties to the N and S have had good rainfalls. > > Temps here have broken all in history. A terrible Spring and now a very > bad start to summer. Being only a trough gardener insofar a rock plants > are concerned, I once again am grateful to be most obsessed by the > woodlanders. > > It is nice, though, to see several forms of delosperma, both in troughs > and on a slope happily enjoying the sun and heat. While winter seems to > do a little killing off here and there, it is so delightful to be able to > pick up a loose piece and stick it in a trough where it will produce a > bloom. I should try to find more...they're easy > > The sunny gardens and porch plants are suffering the worst as they simply > cannot draw up enough water in the scalding heat of up to around one > hundred at times. > > As well, the dreadful humidity gives me serious breathing difficulty so it > is difficult to do all I want to do. This has held me back from taking off > for Truro for the rest of the Summer and most of the Fall. > > Even though the ground seems damp much of the time from watering, the > trees are showing how bad the situation is. Numerous aged maples, etc. > droop, as well as the younger understory trees. Sad to see and praying for > a good storm. > > Friend John Aipassa mentioned to me some weeks ago that his trillium > plants' seed pods were bursting but the seed was not mature and he feared > lack of germination. > > I have found, after several years of racing around just before leaving for > the Cape and cracking open seed pods to find seeds ranging from white to > tan, that most germinated very nicely beneath the mothers. So, as John > Guyer seems to have demonstrated over the years, there is quite a bit of > latitude in what will germinate...thankfully. > > I think all this heat is telling me that I should not plant any more > plants in gardens, but I spent two hours yesterday mattocking a little new > area as a friend sent me a variegated forsythia. I will use it to help > hide trash cans, sink a bunch of daff bulbs dug up when planting the last > plant sale treasures, etc. > > I just have to slow down! > > Cheerio, > Marcia Brown Meigs Ithaca, NY USA > > > Knoxville TN had the highest temperature ever measured here yesterday of > 105 F, and I measured 107 F. on my back porch. We are in serious drought, > and I'm being hard pressed to keep trees and shrubs alive, let alone > anything else. > > Having whined, I'd like to commiserate with those with much more dire > problems. I'd like to hear from Bob Nold and the folks at the Denver > Botanical Gardens as to their situation. Are our Colorado friends okay? > And I'm sure some of our members were affected by the awful storm in the DC > area recently. I, too, had been wondering if we still had a viable > group--missed hearing from everyone. > > Elin Johnson > Sweetwater, TN > > In a message dated 6/28/2012 7:01:35 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > 100 degrees here, Air Quality Index reported as 139. > > -- > Larry Wallace > Cincinnati > ____________________________________________ > >
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