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[mark wessel <growyourown@earthlink.net>]

Stephen,
     Say goodbye citrus and say Hello Humidity.  
Mark

On Dec 1, 2011, at 7:23 PM, Stephen Sadler wrote:

> I'll be moving to Charlotte next summer. Anybody here nearby? Any planting
> advice?
> 
> My Sacramento home is zone 9. I have little trouble with zone 10a plants. I
> know I'm dropping to 7 (goodbye, fresh citrus :-( ). I had a large
> garden/small farmlet in a Mediterranean zone 7 before, so I'll have at least
> some familiarity, but the lack of dry summers will be new. We will have more
> land - our suburban plot is a third of an acre; we're looking at 2/3 to 7¾
> acres there so far. 
> 
> Love it here where I am, have a lakeside cabin in the Sierra that's
> incredibly gorgeous, we can grow about anything, and I love and seem to need
> the Pacific and the great Western national and state parks. We have terribly
> mixed feelings. 
> 
> ~ Stephen
> 
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