Refrigerator time

[Paul Christian]

Hi All again,

Thanks for putting me right about WEATHER. Yup I guess most of you guys get
it cold  - point taken.....

Ellen I don't know about England, that is near here (about 4 miles away) but
we are in Wales, a separate country but part of the United Kingdom with
Scotland and a bit of Ireland. Call it England here and people tend to
mumble darkly (often in Welsh) before tearing various bits off you; heads,
arms etc.  ;-)

I suppose that it is akin to the ways some Canadians go when referred to as
"Americans", even though that is probably nearer to the true situation.

:-)))
Anyway Ellen, lecture not intended, YES here it is spring,.... until at
least Thursday...

At 07:48 18/03/97 -0500, you wrote:
>I think Paul Christian needs to spend some time in a *real* winter....
>Paul, as you observe, many arisaemas "turn to mush" if they freeze.
>Well, here in Banana Belt North (upstate NY), our 120" average annual
>snowfall often keeps the ground from freezing very deep, so thus far
>(i.e. last winter - don't know yet about this) I've overwintered my
>A. candidissimum and A. franchetianum successfully by planting them
>c. 1' deep; and this year I'm subjecting a number of others to hardiness
>experiments (tortuosum, nepenthoides, ringens, as I remember).  Sikokianums
>seem pretty hardy - I think they're only 8" deep or so.
>
>However - without all that snow to keep us warm, the ground would freeze
>a good deal deeper than it does.  I think we'd then be restricted to
>arisaemas which actually tolerate freezing, unless we could get them
>18" down (or more).
>
>Do I understand (looking out here over a glistening expanse of ice-glazed
>snow, sparkling in the sunlight) that it's spring in England?
>
>Ellen
>
>
Paul :-))
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