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Old 25-11-2005, 08:15 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Kay
 
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Default Wind chill, fleece etc.

In article , Nick Maclaren
writes
In article ,
Kay wrote:

It sounds very similar from the description you have given. In what way
is the response to frost and drought different?


With frost, the leaves go limp and change colour overnight and
recover the following day. With drought, they do neither, but
sort of shrivel - and it is not reversible.


Ah, right. Not coum, but other cyclamen I have seen the leaves go limp
(without shrivelling) and recover after a good soaking, in other words,
very much you decription of the frost effect. Other plants, of course,
do the flopping and recovering thing with great panache - ever seen a
peace lily trying to tell you it needs water?


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Kay
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