apparently camellias are tornado proof
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Comments (23)Kathy, we're in Mississippi on the Gulf. Biloxi/Gulfport area right off the beach. Harrison County.I hope your husband will be safe,I'll be thinking of you both. The DH is driving about, he just called a while ago to say the National Guard has been posted along Highway 90 and along Highway 49.After Katrina they laid out razor wire so no one would go south of the railroad tracks. Lots of out of town power company trucks already, the news online says expect 12 hours of storm. Katrina was 8 hours..so...WOW..they still have homes destroyed by Katrina marked with those big "x"s ( homes where they found dead bodies) and where is Jim Cantore?? where ever he is, we should all go the opposite direction! lol He was here the 28th for the Katrina anniversary...I hope he left town! Here is a link that might be useful: my local newspaper SunHerald.Com...See MoreBuds - Blooms & Birds,what is happening in you neck of the woods
Comments (45)I keep thinking of all those ladies who like to wear bright sunny dresses for Easter Sunday. It's not going to be quite the same this year, even if it is going to warm up a bit (and rain) for the weekend. 27F out there this morning, and we're well past the average last freeze date and nearing the average last frost date (next Tuesday). And yet it's been such a mild winter overall; I know I didn't drop below 20F here the entire season. But spring marches on. Warm weather will get here eventually. I hope! The long term forecast suggests above normal temperatures for April, so I guess the NAO is heading back where it belongs....See MoreShow your spring pics!
Comments (70)Thank you, ghostlyvision. Well, it's definitely spring--I got the lawn tractor stuck in the lower pond spillway this afternoon. I didn't start out in the spillway, but by the time the tractor stopped sliding, it was sitting in a few inches of slimy green muck. Good thing I was wearing my barn boots. My sweet neighbor ran over and offered to push, but I told her we'd wait until my son-in-law came home. I get the darned thing stuck at least once every spring, so now that's out of the way, and my neighbor and I had a nice visit. ;)...See Morevery optimistically early damage report
Comments (23)do you think the Cinnamomum species will be susceptible to Laurel Wilt disease? No, because I think the operating assumption about Laurel Wilt, as with so many deadly plant diseases, is that it comes from Asia and that Asian species are at least mostly immune. But we will see. In the immediate future, cold winters are probably going to be more of a concern ;-) Completely agree about the record lows! It's one thing for Hagerstown, but particularly shocking for a town at 160 ft of elevation in SE VA! It's fascinating to think of climates it terms of risk of extreme "edge cases". The most extreme extremes! Like, the wetter, zone 10a parts of SE Australia seemed ridiculously Edenic when I visited, but, that explained why it shocked me to my [horticultural, at least!] core to realize the incredibly lush, exotic-filled Mt. Tomah Botanic Garden that I discussed here had a harrowing, narrow escape from incineration just a few years after my visit. Teams of fire fighters worked to spare it from the recent Aussie fires. This in a climate that usually has PLENTY of rain, year round: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackheath,_New_South_Wales#Geography_and_climate and certainly during summer. And as far as I've been able to piece together, that can potentially happen almost anywhere in the highland subtropical parts of AU, with maybe the exception of some of Tasmania. It's just the nature of the beast. (Is any Eden safe these days? It also shocked me that Villa Taranto in Italy was visited by a tornado that killed the gigantic Fagus 'Purpurea Tricolor' I'd seen a few years earlier.) So, if I lived as far south as Emporia, just 1.5 h drive from very palmy Virginia Beach (where I also have some relatives) I would think "surely I can grow Trachycarpus!" Especially given what I would see as the trade offs vs. where I live now, like being too hot for rhododendrons. But, obviously not in a place that went below 0F so recently! Anyhow my cousin who I saw around Christmas said she wants to try a palm in her garden. She might luck out because she's a little west of Emporia in a place where there seem to have low hills and she might have better cold air drainage, but I didn't really get a sense of it because I only visited her house after dark. Full disclosure I am trying the last Trachy I will ever try in that SW alcove of my house, but if it doesn't make it, it doesn't make it. And I'm never going to heroics to save it. It's pretty low on my list of plants to worry about, because for one thing they are so common just a hop skip and jump south of where I live, in the grand scheme of things, which VA Beach is. Just the other end of the Bay!...See MoreEmbothrium
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