Shiva wrote:
On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 02:35:43 GMT, "Jeffrey J. Potoff"
wrote:



I used to live in MD. You get two weeks of "winter" every year.


When did this happen? I was there for the first 20 years of my life,
and we had real winters every year, most times with feet of snow, not
inches.

Yeah, Yeah. Baltimore gets a foot of snow dumped on it sometime during
the winter, but it's only cold for a few weeks in January and even then
the temp bounces around quite a bit. One year I as riding my bike in
shorts in late December. I have family that have lived there for 40
years so I know my experience over a couple years was not out of the
ordinary. Their idea of cold is 50 F. This is in contrast to the time
I spent in Minnesota where "winter" consists of 6 weeks at 0 F and many
more weeks below 32 F. That's where I'd worry about winter protection
and deep planting of bud unions for roses. I don't even plant deep in
Zone 5 and I haven't lost anything.

J.