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"How do you get to Sunset Zone 40? Take the Ventura Freeway to another
freeway until you get to the Slauson cutoff. Stop the car. Get out of your car. Cut off your Slauson. Realize what a painful thing you did. Get back in your car and travel until you come to ...the fork in the road." Huh? Who made that up? I am not familiar enough with California geography to get the joke. Sunset Zone 40 is a band of territory that runs east-northeast from around western Ohio to New England, following the south shore of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. It begins several miles from the lakeshore. Sunset Zone 39 is right on the lakes, primarily in USDA Zone 6. Sunset Zone 40 is primarily in Zone 5. The original flora of the area was mixed forest, oaks, maples, pines and assorted other trees & bushes. It is mostly too cold for rhododendrons and fancy flowering trees. It gets a lot of rain and snow, but no earthquakes or hurricanes. The summers can be buggy, but not too hot & humid. Gardening is a challenge, but reasonably successful. The scenery is nice, but not spectacular. It is well-known for drumlins & other glacier remnants. Plant aficionados who do not ski have to grow indoors under lights in the winter in order to survive. Iris, Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40 "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." Yogi Berra |
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That was taken from a routine done over the years by Art Fern, host of the
"Tea Time Movie", on the Johnny Carson show. It was written by some unknown demented comedy writer and is probably a takeoff of some old Vaudeville routine. http://www.angelfire.com/tv2/eccentric/artfern.htm Here is an artist's conception of the notorious "fork in the road". http://www.will-harris.com/food/asse...outons-com.jpg If you have a preference for other cutlery, try this one. http://www.stare.com/1998/period10j.gif "Iris Cohen" wrote in message ... "How do you get to Sunset Zone 40? Take the Ventura Freeway to another freeway until you get to the Slauson cutoff. Stop the car. Get out of your car. Cut off your Slauson. Realize what a painful thing you did. Get back in your car and travel until you come to ...the fork in the road." Huh? Who made that up? I am not familiar enough with California geography to get the joke. Sunset Zone 40 is a band of territory that runs east-northeast from around western Ohio to New England, following the south shore of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. It begins several miles from the lakeshore. Sunset Zone 39 is right on the lakes, primarily in USDA Zone 6. Sunset Zone 40 is primarily in Zone 5. The original flora of the area was mixed forest, oaks, maples, pines and assorted other trees & bushes. It is mostly too cold for rhododendrons and fancy flowering trees. It gets a lot of rain and snow, but no earthquakes or hurricanes. The summers can be buggy, but not too hot & humid. Gardening is a challenge, but reasonably successful. The scenery is nice, but not spectacular. It is well-known for drumlins & other glacier remnants. Plant aficionados who do not ski have to grow indoors under lights in the winter in order to survive. Iris, Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40 "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." Yogi Berra |
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It is mostly too cold for rhododendrons and
fancy flowering trees. By that I meant native rhododendrons. With reasonable care, hybrid rhododendrons and flowering crabapples abound. We can grow flowering dogwoods & redbud, but they are rarely found in the wild. Iris, Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40 "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." Yogi Berra |
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You must be having another "senior moment".
What does any of that have to do with the "fork in the road"? "Iris Cohen" wrote in message ... It is mostly too cold for rhododendrons and fancy flowering trees. By that I meant native rhododendrons. With reasonable care, hybrid rhododendrons and flowering crabapples abound. We can grow flowering dogwoods & redbud, but they are rarely found in the wild. Iris, Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40 "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." Yogi Berra |
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What does any of that have to do with the "fork in the road"?
The PS had to do with rhododendrons & flowering trees in Sunset Zone 40. Fashizzle must have missed my previous message. There was some sort of garbled joke about Sunset Zone 40, comprehensible only to Californians. So I wrote a relatively sane description of what Zone 40 actually is. See the Sunset National Gardening Book. My signature file has included one of Yogi Berra's famous quotes. I will change it, so you will have something else to twit me about. Ceriusly, Steve, are you planning to be at the World Bonsai Convention in Washington next May? If not, I may be passing through Baltimore. I'm hoping to get to meet you. Iris, Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40 "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." Yogi Berra |
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There was a 'little' discussion about the meaning of epiphytes and aerophytes. Well, epiphytes and aerophytes are both life-form sytems that were added to the Raunkiaer life-form system which was incomplete... Epiphytes are plants which grow on other plants. Aerophytes can also grow on other plants, but it's also possible that they grow on electric wires, stones (like litiphytic lichens) and so on. A used definition of aerophytes is: plants with perennating buds above ground surface with an atrophic system (not fixed to soil). Most of the aerophytes are perennial herbaceous. |
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Iris Cohen Wrote: Aerophyte is essentially a synonym for epiphyte, which is what Platycerium is. I wouldn't call it a class, since class has another meaning in biology. Being an epiphyte is one way that plants grow. Iris, Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40 "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." Yogi Berra First of all, forgive me my bad English because I'm flemmish... There was a 'little' discussion about the meaning of epiphytes and aerophytes. Well, epiphytes and aerophytes are both life-form sytems that were added to the Raunkiaer life-form system which was incomplete... Epiphytes are plants which grow on other plants. Aerophytes can also grow on other plants, but it's also possible that they grow on electric wires, stones (like litiphytic lichens) and so on. A used definition of aerophytes is: plants with perennating buds above ground surface with an atrophic system (not fixed to soil). Most of the aerophytes are perennial herbaceous. -- Stinus |
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Blame it on the flu season. I'm a bit phlegmish myself right now with a
really bad cough and should be resting in bed. "Stinus" wrote in message ... Iris Cohen Wrote: Aerophyte is essentially a synonym for epiphyte, which is what Platycerium is. I wouldn't call it a class, since class has another meaning in biology. Being an epiphyte is one way that plants grow. Iris, Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40 "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." Yogi Berra First of all, forgive me my bad English because I'm flemmish... There was a 'little' discussion about the meaning of epiphytes and aerophytes. Well, epiphytes and aerophytes are both life-form sytems that were added to the Raunkiaer life-form system which was incomplete... Epiphytes are plants which grow on other plants. Aerophytes can also grow on other plants, but it's also possible that they grow on electric wires, stones (like litiphytic lichens) and so on. A used definition of aerophytes is: plants with perennating buds above ground surface with an atrophic system (not fixed to soil). Most of the aerophytes are perennial herbaceous. -- Stinus |
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First of all, forgive me my bad English because I'm flemish... BRBR
No problem. Your English is better than my Flemish. ;-) Regardless of your definition, Platycerium is an epiphyte. In nature it grows on palm trees. Taxonomically it's a fern. Iris, Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40 "A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense." - Woody Allen |
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Iris Cohen Wrote: First of all, forgive me my bad English because I'm flemish... BRBR No problem. Your English is better than my Flemish. ;-) Regardless of your definition, Platycerium is an epiphyte. In nature it grows on palm trees. Taxonomically it's a fern. Iris, Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40 "A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense." - Woody Allen I don't know the flower (at university they teach a lot about classification systems but pityful we don't learn to recognize plants and flowers (we do learn about trees in the course dendrology) ), so it's perfectly possible that this plant is an epiphyte. I just wanted to give the definitions like I've seen them in my courses because there was some misunderstanding... -- Stinus |
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"Peter Jason" wrote in
: "Niels Vorgaard Christensen" wrote in message ... Hi. Would anybody be able to tell me what kind of plant this is: http://ostenfeld.dk/~nielsvc/plante.jpg Regards, Niels Why don't you replant the poor thing? The pot is too small. It looks like one of those aerophytes that should be hanging on a wall. It is a staghorn fern, http://www.plantoftheweek.org/week117.shtml. There is nothing wrong with the pot size for that species. Sean |
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"Sean Houtman" wrote in message news:1105514223.62bca0ebc0131fb818476cd70415f41a@t eranews... "Peter Jason" wrote in : "Niels Vorgaard Christensen" wrote in message ... Hi. Would anybody be able to tell me what kind of plant this is: http://ostenfeld.dk/~nielsvc/plante.jpg Regards, Niels Why don't you replant the poor thing? The pot is too small. It looks like one of those aerophytes that should be hanging on a wall. It is a staghorn fern, http://www.plantoftheweek.org/week117.shtml. There is nothing wrong with the pot size for that species. Sean Come to think of it, I saw one of these things (the plant, not the pot) growing on the bark of a large tree at a friends place during Xmas dinner. And it wasn't in a pot at all, but rather just hanging there - wild and free. |
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Assuming your friend was in a warm climate, this is entirely possible.
As an epiphyte, being anchored to a tree trunk is entirely natural. |
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Assuming can get you into nothing but trouble.
Not all epiphytes are found in warm climates but all are found growing on trees (by definition). There are epiphytic ferns, mosses and lichen found in arctic pine forests. "aggiecon" wrote in message oups.com... Assuming your friend was in a warm climate, this is entirely possible. As an epiphyte, being anchored to a tree trunk is entirely natural. |
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