Welwitschia, a source for

Max Withers maxwithers@gmail.com
Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:40:51 PST
Coastal Californians interested in hardiness should take a look at Nan
Sterman's post-mortem of the San Diego freeze of 2007:

http://pacifichorticulture.org/web-extras/69/…

I don't believe she lists a single native, but I wouldn't expect any
California bulbs, at least, to have suffered.



On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Max Withers <maxwithers@gmail.com> wrote:
> A salutary reminder from another hemisphere, Alberto. As is the great
> freeze of 1972, when temperatures dropped below 30 F for 3 days
> straight, and which began 40 years ago tomorrow.
>
> (As a native New Englander, I find such figures laughable as do, I'm
> sure, many of our members from less hospitable climes, but as a
> California gardner I certainly do not).
>
> Best,
> Max
> Oakland
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Randall P. Linke <randysgarden@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The occasional big freeze is what all of us here fear the most.
>>
>> Randy
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Alberto Castillo
>> <ezeizabotgard@hotmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> One of the largest bulb collections ever asembled (in Concord) was
>>> exterminated by frost in 1991.
>>>
>>>
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