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From: "J.E. Shields" <jshields at INDY.NET>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: global warning


>I find climate and climate change apropos to the discussion of growing
>native and exotic plants, wherever we live.  We don't have to have
>uninformed opinions -- the question of climate change is treated regular=ly
>in the scientific literature.  Try searching Google Scholar and see what
>you can learn:
>
> http://scholar.google.com/
>
> I try to grow a lot of exotic bulbs (in the wide sense of geophytes: tr=ue
> bulbs, corms, tubers, rhizomes), mainly from South Africa.  As with
> Arisaema, a few will grow here and many do not.  I do not think my loca=l
> climate here in central Indiana (USA) is a hard zone 5 anymore, but we
> have an occasional winter that is very harsh.  My exotics growing outdo=ors
> in the ground seem to suffer more from mild but extremely wet winters t=han
> they do from cold winters with frozen ground and precipitation as snow.
>
> I'm still puzzled as to why my Arisaema griffithii consistently die --
> even potted in the greenhouse.  Too cold, too wet, too ..., ?
>
> Regards,
> Jim Shields
>
>
>
> At 12:49 PM 1/10/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>>George:
>>
>>You have lost control.
>>.......
>
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