In article ,
Rusty Hinge wrote:

If we go back to the hard winters we used to have here, 20-30 years
ago, I may well lose it, but it doesn't mind -10 Celsius or the soil
freezing to the depth of an inch or so.

Probably different origins then. We had some very hard winters in the
higher ground above the Thames Valley.

Had I but world enough and time, I would like to try breeding bay
to enhance various characteristics. Bean says that bay has greenish
yellow flowers, but mine are a bright gold - if they were bigger and
longer-lasting, they would be worth growing for decoration. And, as
you say, bay almost certainly varies in hardiness.

Indeed, I can remember the sea freezing at least as far round the coast
as Shoeburyness.

Nah. That's merely the scum congealing :-)


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

wrote:
In article ,
Rusty Hinge wrote:

Indeed, I can remember the sea freezing at least as far round the coast
as Shoeburyness.

Nah. That's merely the scum congealing :-)


It's true I was quite small then, but even then I think I'd have fallen
through congealed spume.

There were great plates of the stuff piled-up where the north-east wind
had beached them...

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Rusty