Re: Snaps was Re: [gardeners] Voting Soon?
Rosemary Carlson (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Thu, 09 Apr 1998 23:06:15
You mean my local nurseries are *right* about something???? Surely you jest...
Rosemary
At 11:00 PM 4/9/98 +0000, you wrote:
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>> Lucinda: I wish I could *find* stock. Every year, I try to find stock here.
>> Every year, the nurserys tell me that our weather is too hot and humid -
>> that they don't even order stock because it doesn't thrive here. Is this
>> true? Does stock need cool and dry?
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>Stock definitely poops out here in Atlanta (zone 7b). It's not worth the
>effort for the pitiful showing it makes here. I'm a zone warmer than you,
>Rosemary, but I have a hunch your humidity and heat will do a number
>on stock where you are, too. I don't know if it would work as a
>Fall-planted bedding plant.....you may get freezing temps too soon.
>Dunno.
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>Catharine.
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