Prague citsuma in ground update
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Prague citsuma in ground - zone 7b update
Comments (17)I hate to be pessimistic, but I can't imagine not having to protect it at some point, in certain years. Personally, I would set up a frame around the plant each winter, and have a light and a cover ready to go in extreme cold. That would not be too much trouble for something I want around for a while. Best of luck to you!...See MorePrague citsuma in snow...
Comments (67)Laura, oh that's great . I hope it did alright. It's a shame we have to go through these extremes to keep our trees alive when I thought these arctic blast might be a thig of the past. It seems they are getting colder and colder each year. Now I have to double think what to plant and what to keep in pots. I did plant a hardy snow gardenia in the ground and it made it through the severe cold arctic outbreak we had in November for over 2 weeks in which our ponds and lake freakishly froze four inches in depth! Then it got warmer after that. But that plant is covered by an igloo, you know the kind you make lemonaid in. it's insulated. It was doing great until I had to cover it again for this blast. I have not been able to take the cover off yet and I pray it's ok. I deliberatly planted it against my house on the south facing side so that the foundation woud prevent the roots from freezing. Oh God, I wonder how it's doing? lol What we do for our trees I'll tell you. Please, keep us updated and good luck)))...See MorePrague Citsuma baby
Comments (8)I would suggest to keep your plant outside and well protected. I do not know specifically about Prague Citsuma but I know plants can lose their cold hardiness if they are not exposed to period of cold weather every year. Eg chinese elms can survive indoors in winter and they will remain evergreen. After a couple of winters indoors they are far less likely to survive outdoors even with protection. If you can keep it just above freezing (35-42) it is good enough. The trick will be to not let it go above 45 for extended periods otherwise it may come out of its dormancy. Again these are rules of thumb. I would have liked to experiment with one but I have promised my wife - no more plants. Nice to see you here Laura. I have been on forum much less past few months....See MorePottery Barn/Williams Sonoma Really BAD issues (resolved and updated)
Comments (43)My husband's experience in warehouse work was that it is highly controlled by computer systems. The problem is, the way it is supposed to work and the way the computers are working is not necessarily in sync with the real conditions on the ground. And there's no middle person who can adjust the two to each other. So there was the way it was supposed to work, they way they were trained to do it, and then the way it was actually happening on the ground, which was often way out of whack. No middle management to problem-solve Since folks were still being held to the time standards, they just had to improvise and do whatever it took to meet the time quota, there was no one to tell them what to do if the computer was wrong. Which of course meant misfiling things, moving stuff, and pulling whatever looked "good enough." Which of course got things way MORE out of whack as time went on. Employees were treated like cogs in a wheel, and no one to oil them. If they broke, the attitude was that there was always another cog in waiting. The staff turnover there was massive. Every day my husband went into work and watched people quit and do the happy dance on the way out. So that bunged up the system even further, the chronic staff shortages just ended up stressing out people who stayed on even more . . . Hubs got called back to his professional job so one day he was the guy doing the happy dance . . . As to the constant staff turnover due to the unpleasant working conditions, I don't know if this was due to the local management or is an overall problem or a little of both. But that's why I'm not surprised that as more and more companies go to a warehousing model, more and more glitches will appear in a system that already wasn't very robust. I worked in a sporting goods warehouse as a summer job in college, and we spent quite a bit of time making sure things stayed organized and adjusting and readjusting the use of space. But hey, that warehouse was small and closed down long ago . . . This happens in a lot of organizations that switch to depending primarily on machines and computers, without accounting for the staff or time to keep them running smoothly and jibing with real time events. AI can only take you so far. It's often way oversold. There is gads of research on how poorly technology is managed, I had to delve into it for my master's thesis on the use of technology in education, same scenario. The fact that Amazon has no real people and customer service department speaks volumes. My latest is they are not crediting returns . . . which you had to return because they mis-filled your order . . . . which is why I have downgraded my Amazon usage. I still to ordering from companies that take customer service seriously. Amazon is a mosh pit and one should not be surprised otherwise. As for Pottery Barn, well they look high end, but I suspect it's just on the surface. I used to save photos from their catalogs as decorating inspiration, but never was going to mail order home decorating stuff. Who knows how long I can live on hand me downs and flea market finds and stuff I just run across sometimes randomly. I got a fabulous wool Persian rug at some random sale day a a random Macy's and I didn't even know the store sold rugs. I was just out window shopping with a friend . . .ironically easier than sometimes the hours I spend online searching for some very specific item I want to buy, from the vast morass of the Internet . . ....See Moreponcirusguy6b452xx
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