On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 14:29:01 GMT, Charles Perry
wrote:



Shiva wrote:

Aww, poor thing. Where are you? Did you get any sort of transition
from summer to winter this year?

Minnesota zone 4a, no transition at all this year. One day 90+, the next
60's, the next 50's. There was only one day between the air conditioning and
the furnace. It was down into the lower 20's again last night. The few
things I covered don't look like they will recover.


I still have dead bare root roses to dig out Not a red letter year for
me, rose wise, I'm afraid.

I am sorry you lost roses. losing annuals early just makes me grumpy for a
day or two. Losing roses is a tragedy that causes real grief.

I look forward to cold weather since we have so much 80F+ weather
here. I have come to hate the heat. But I do live for spring and fall.

I hope you have a nice long fall season. Now that we have had a hard freeze
there is a hope here for some Indian Summer.

Regards,

Charles

We've had an early start to fall in the past couple of days. the
nights have been more like Halloween. it got down in the upper 30s
last night. But it's warming up nicely. We had a mild spring, a
moderate summer (only got hot toward the end) and now I wonder what
the winter's going to be like.

Normally I have blooming roses well into November, but I wonder if
this early cold snap is going to trigger premature dormancy. It
wouldn't bother me in the least, but it *will* be interesting to see
how the roses react. As I said, we seem to be about 3 weeks ahead of
schedule.