"Klara" wrote in message
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In message , madgardener
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Thanks for letting me share a moment before the rain storms move in.

And thanks for making me feel better - Feeling sorry for myself with a bad
cold and the family here and unable to say a word...

but the GOOD news is that you were there able to enjoy being with family,
despite not being able to say a word. You could have carried around a pad
and made notes and been funny g as much as I talk, it's interesting when
I lose my voice and listen more of what's going on...........LOL

But the garden looked lovely this morning, with the snow and the frost:
the ring-necked doves and the woodpigeons are just the right colour for
winter! But the rest of the garden is feeling as sorry for itself as I am
... more frost recently than we've had for maybe a decade. It'll be
interesting to see what survives...

I wonder what growing zone you're in? Here zone 7 (which I always say it
here, but I'm really straddling zone's 6 and 7 with my micro-climate)
is -23o to -18o C and 7 is -18o to -12o C (my wonderous book converts
temperatures for me! ) realistically it CAN go as cold as -18o C and has
actually gotten snaps that were colder in years past. But there is no
allowance for below freezing in zone 7. I tend to have plants that have
acclimated a bit. Like my fig tree, that doesn't read the book that says it
shouldn't be living up here on my ridge, except that I planted it where it
would get full southwestern exposure, and in a raised bed where it's roots
would be warmer than the actual ground's is. Thanks for hollering back at
me! There will be more rambles as things start waking up..........
madgardener up on the chilly and damp ridge, back in Fairy Holler,
overlooking English Mountain in Eastern Tennessee, where we WILL be getting
frost tonight, maybe even snow flurries!

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Klara, Gatwick basin