My Troughs

[Maggi Young]

It's was one of the hottest summers on record,realy difficult growing conditions this summer.

Ps Buster the Jack just turned 16 and still going strong.

We could never contemplate coping with such temperatures, Garry. The loss rate must be as great with  very high temps. as with very low ones.


Kind regards to dear Buster, please!

[Garry Edwards]

We could never contemplate coping with such temperatures, Garry. The loss rate must be as great with  very high temps. as with very low ones.


Kind regards to dear Buster, please!

The high temps are the worst with many plants suffering stress due to the high temps and very high humidity,even the annuals have sufferd this year especially the imps,many dying from fungus attack bought on by the high humidity.

[Maggi Young]

especially the imps,many dying from fungus attack bought on by the high humidity

Even without such extremely high temperatures here in the UK, many suppliers this year did not stock Impatiens because of the prevalence of fungal infections in recent years. I believe some new cultivars are hoped to be more resistant to these moulds.

[johnw]

We hit -20 last winter and + 42 this summer.

Ouch!   

Did the bamboo stay green at -20c?

johnw

[Garry Edwards]

Ouch!   

Did the bamboo stay green at -20c?

johnw

This will be its first winter will keep you informed

[David Nicholson]

Excellent trough work there Garry.

[Garry Edwards]

Excellent trough work there Garry.

Thank you David

I see you are from Devon,I was born in Honiton and had a Nursery for close to 17 years in the Ottery st Mary and Sidmouth area before we moved to Canada 10 years ago.

[johnw]

Garry - Three weeks of high humidity but temps in the low 20's and humidex readingss in the 30's was hard on things like Meconopsis seedlings this year. They managed to pull through and look good now that it has cooled off.

Same temp here today as Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.   Bands of heavy rain from Sandy coming in and accompanied by strong thunder and lightning.

The bananas have sent out new leaves in the past week.

johnw  - +16c at 21.24

[David Nicholson]

Thank you David

I see you are from Devon,I was born in Honiton and had a Nursery for close to 17 years in the Ottery st Mary and Sidmouth area before we moved to Canada 10 years ago.

Hello Garry,

We live in Ivybridge, between Totnes and Plymouth. We spend a lot of time in East Devon though in Honiton, Ottery St Mary and Sidmouth indeed we were in Sidmouth yesterday. Much drier in East Devon than in our neck of the woods.

[johnw]

Small world, a friend lives in Honiton and Maggi knows her too!  What I had always imagined as the scariest job in the world was looking after the Stones' plants when they went away.  Turned out this acquaintance did exactly that.  Can't remember if she told me or Maggi did.  She survived.

johnw