Normal weather

[Joyce Miller]

Dear Adam and George,

Every gardener has problems.  For a friend in France, it is mice
who burrow in his raised beds and eat his bulbs;  for another it is
crows/ravens that steal name tags.  For me it is squirrels who bury nuts in
seedling pots.  They seem to know which are the most select of the
select.  What has this to do with normal weather?  Nothing.
While our winters are so mild and fairly dry, we can grow
oncocylous iris in the ground here, it is our summers that are a
problem.  Many plants cannot stand our dry sustained heat of consecutive
days of over 100 degrees F.  I don't do well either for that matter.

-From your and George's answers, I have choices.  Think I will try
forcing.  Previously, I had plunged pots outside for the winter.
Thanks,


Kind regards,  Joyce Miller, Sacramento, CA, USA  USDA Zone 9A
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