[pbs] Some frits are waking up
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totototo at telus.net
Mon Mar 2 14:06:50 EST 2009
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?q=48.4676,-123.3262&ll=48.4676,-123.3262&z=14
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