At 01:52 PM 4/10/98 -0700, you wrote: >On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Margaret Lauterbach wrote: > >> I know, Kay, but look how many degrees north Lewiston is from Boise, and no >> maritime influence. Must be warm currents coming up the Columbia/Snake >> that moderate the temp. Margaret > >Yup, 6 makes a big diagonal along the river. But hey, you're >farther north than I was in Iowa, and we were zone 4. For that matter, >George and I share a USDA zone, and Oregon sure ain't Loosy-anna. ;-) > >Kay Lancaster kay@fern.com (who used to dream about all the species > she could grow in zone 6) > I think my part of Loosyanna is gonna be maybe zone 10 or 11 this year. It hasn't rained an appreciable amount in over one month and we hit 84 this afternoon. Humidity is low and it was 60F this morning. Definitely an atypical April. We still haven't turned the air conditioning on and the furnace has been shut down for a month. More money to buy "stuff." George