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["del stubbs" <pinewoodel@hotmail.com>]

You have quite the stone fruit planting
Here in n MN. we bottomed out around minus 35F with little snow,   it was 
not really a test winter for here, but I  still see strange bud damage, one 
for instance is a whitney crab - zone hardy for here but all leaf buds died 
except the very tips of 3 branches, makes for a strange looking tree!
What was your winter like? bottom temp?  dry / snow?
I am wondering if we got some exceptionally drying winds that did damage 
beyond their temperature.
As to mushrooms, I have watched little red squirrels taking them up trees to 
store them, Del

Del Stubbs  www.pinewoodforge.com  ag zone2/3

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