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reading about the cold in europe makes walking around in short sleeves and gardening in a t-shirt seem even more pleasant-reno really does have great weather seriously though how is the cold affecting things there- is it as cold as elsewhere-in the minus range? the weather here of course will be wonderful until we have a final killing frost about the first week in june- about the drought what  are your rainfalls- here a drought is when we have 3 inches instead of our usual six in annual precip-in summer when the humidity goes to 15 percent gardening stops until fall-good lord i am running on-so far u all seem quite reticent ttfn

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more and more crocus tom. are showing thru the garden litter arousing feelings of guilt about not doing a more thorough cleanup-the excuse of protection from the cold dry weather no longer applies-the weather in fact is cloudish and warmish-the guilt is not so great as to cause me to actually clean-tomorrow-tomorrow will be the day because the major diplsy is about to begin-however the ground coverage does seem to be what the bulbs like for reseeding so perhaps it is in fact an act of virtue

Snowdrops

so nice-when i planted snowdrops 30 years ago that is what i envisioned-but-where once i had one now i have two sometimes plants are hard to fathom

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the weather here is very fine-mid sixries but very dry-we are just coming off a record dry spell-67 days with no measurable precip-the garden is still dormant despite the warmth altho i did notice this morning that the buds on the magnolias-stellata and liliaflora-are begining to swell-a friends garden was swept by a brush fire that also burnt 29 houses-the second such fire this year-we live to close to the edge of the desert-will someone tell me what is happening in your part of the world?

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in the past 30 years reno has gone from a cool zone 5 to a cool zone 7 still cold for the uk but an enormous change here-the weather has also seemed to become more stable particularly in the last five years-in my experience bulbs are disoriented the first year you put them in-they will bloom earlier sometimes much earlier than the following year-the tiny bulbs follow one another closely-by mid april crocus will be at the flood followed by scillas and puschkinias with my favorite chionodoxa covering the ground bluer than the sky

just curious

searching for seeds

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