Re: [gardeners]rainfall
penny x stamm (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Tue, 26 May 1998 00:54:56 -0400
George, we've only received 3.7 inches of rain in May this
year -- but when it comes, it's often destructive. We depend on
the water coming down from the Catskill Mountains when there
has been a good previous winter's snowfall.
Today it was 80* north of us in Boston, and 80* south of us in
either Philadelphia or Washington, DC. But we only reached
64* today, and froze our wet backs off! I thought we might work
on thru the drizzle but out of the grey there came a close flash
of lightning and a wild clap of thunder, enuff to frighten a person
to death, and so we fled inside. One hour later it stopped, and
we returned to the planting -- this time definitely with wet feet!
We put in:
12 brachycomes (look like purple asters with yellow centers)
2 blue daisy 'Felicia'
1 pennisetum purpurescens Annual Fountain Grass
120 red begonias
48 blue ageratum
and moved a flowering quince, a coral azalea, a perennial aster
and an 18" white pine seedling we found hiding. Have 4 more
beds to go...
Penny NY zone 6
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