In article ,
sacha writes:
| in article , Grahame Fendle at
| wrote on 25/11/02 11:24 am:
| "Peter Crosland" wrote:
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| The wasps will be long dead by this time of year.
|
| Oh dear. How wrong can you be?
|
| I listened to this advice from someone else some months ago. I wish I never
| had, for it had almost tragic consequences.
|
| I must agree with this. I think that when someone makes that comment, they
| should add the rider "depending where you live". In the milder parts of
| Britain, my experience is that they most definitely do NOT die off in
| winter.

Even in Cambridge, we have had only one mild frost. The mistake
here is following the rigid rule-book approach so beloved of most
gardening writers and almost all bureaucrats. We should judge
the passing of the seasons from observational cues and not the
calendar.


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Nick Maclaren,
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