Very nice image. I had no idea you could scan flowers and not have them look squashed. Could Sheila share with us how she did this? I asked Sheila Burrow to put her image of bulbs from her garden that she laid on her scanner in an amazingly artistic fashion on the wiki. I have always loved this image. http://ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/pcwiki/… Boyce Tankersley btankers@chicagobotanic.org USDA zone 5 Limited snow cover in winter on the west side of Lake Michigan Urban soils (lacking a natural soil profile, compacted) clay to silt clay pH of soils around 7.8, ditto for irrigation water Historic low temperature minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit Average low temperature minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit Historic high temperature 108 degrees Fahrenheit Average high temperature 84 degrees Fahrenheit Average last frost May 9th Average first frost October 12 Normal growing season 158 days Average 15 days with thunderstorms Average 124 days with precipitation Average 4 days with fog Average 35.8 inches of rainfall (included melted snowfall)
