On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 22:03:40 -0500, "madgardener"
wrote:

We're not in the least like San Francisco.

Understood, YMMV with climate, species, or just the side of the hill
you're on.

I'm sure you get
snow......probably get frosts, and the occaisonal freeze, and if you were to
maintain those cold temperatures, you'd find that below 40o the plant would
not only suffer but would croak.

Snow was very rare; frost was a regular occurrence. In the coldest
part of winter, lows were typically around freezing, and highs were
10°-15° higher. But in most winters there were stretches of several
days at a time when the temperature did not rise above 40° much, if at
all.

I will not presume to tell you that wandering Jew will survive winter
in Tennessee (if you have hard freezes it certainly won't), but the
variety I knew was quite tolerant of temperatures below 40° for
periods of days, at least.

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