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Date Posted: 06:13:55 11/19/01 Mon
Author: Liz
Subject: Winter's coming

Cooler weather means I don't water as often so my plants are less demanding now. I have 9 African violets in bloom and was pleasantly surpised to find that a bromeliad whose bloom is fading has produced a rather largish pup. Had to move my lipstick plant out from under the flourescent light. Seems it was getting too much light and is much happier by the window. The leaves were looking reddish. Everyone seems to be settling in for the winter days ahead.

How's it going for everyone else?

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[> Re: Winter's coming -- maggie, 06:36:10 11/19/01 Mon [1]

Winter hasn't arrived yet, except for two cold days the week before last - it's warm again this morning, 7.30 in the morning - the biggest problem this part of Ireland is just the damp -and it doesn't even get as wet as Kerry or the West.
My succulents are all indoors, either in the greenhouse or in the house here at my elbow; the houseplants are in the bathroom or in their corners of the kitchen - tender annuals like Petunias and Geraniums are still flourishing outside, the grass growing ankle-deep and the perennials still tall though mainly green. The tubs of fuchsias are the best at the moment, flowering their heads off still - but the winter-blooming Mahonia and Viburnum are also loaded with blossom; all sorts of resolutions for a neater garden crowd my mind -


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[> Re: Winter's coming -- denny, 14:26:56 11/20/01 Tue [1]

hard to belive your still warm way up there maggie,but i dont doutb you,micro climets do that.
less demanding in a way liz,but when watering periods are farther and fewer between i tend to miss more often,so in another way its more demanding.
were still ok down here,its in the 40s at night and 80s in the day.its been beautiful.


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[> Re: Winter's coming -- maggie, 20:18:31 11/20/01 Tue [1]

Of course, my warm and your warm are probably not quite the same thing, Denny. One particular American was amused in mid-summer because I said I was worn-out with the heat (18 - 20 degrees for a few days running), and what I mean by warm now is from 10 to 12 degrees - but that's fine enough for me. I know it will take frost to snuff-out the petunias, etc.. Most of the trees are bare now, and I light the fire every day.


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[> Re: Winter's coming -- Liz, 17:42:47 11/25/01 Sun [1]

You're right, Denny. Not having to water as often means things I'd see otherwise might be missed. Sometimes that's not so good. I think it's time to bring in my amaryllis bulb and get it going again. Maybe too late for Xmas blooms, but that's alright. Any spot of color in winter is oh so welcome.


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