Jim, you gave me a nice Eng. lang. lesson to be learning during the next week! And Barb is right absolutely I was laughing while reading it! Thanks guys for your friendly humor and fun I'm finding every time entering to the PN!

Excellent lesson, Jim.
I bet Igor's laughing his socks off...it's a good day when humor (spelled "humour" in Canadian, LOL) starts a day.

Great fun to read...now that I've readit 😉

Must be raining at your place too, huh?

Barb

It never rains here anymore Barb

inch and a half over 3+ months and 2" cracks in the ground in places...

We had negative dewpoints a few days ago with humidity ranging
(during it's daily low point)from 4% to 23% the last week,meaning....
it's dry!

Glad you enjoyed that Igor!

Wow, Jim, not even two inches of rain in 3+ months????
And last year you got pounded with rain, if I recall.
That Sequoia doesn't like dry ground, I bet.

Helped daughter plant some shrubs on their property today.
The sun actually came out for a couple of hours.
After 4 days of rain, dry-as-a-bone dust 6 inches down. 😯 😯 😕

Barb

Yea it's been pretty sucky

If this happened again next year I would
be getting rid of a lot of Cannas,EE's etc.

May-Sept last year 60"+
Less than 2" during the same frame
this year-add to that 7 weeks of 100F heat
and it might as well as not rained at all.

From one extreme to the other, Jim.

Brutal.

.........and at some point back again.

I do wonder if this drought is going to spread north
more still and if this summer wasn't a preview.

If this trend isn't reversed now through spring,
next summer could be rough again!

Agree.

Probably why governments are now calling water a "commodity".
Sheesh, we already pay through the nose for it.

Are you on a water meter (house and/or garden)?

We pay by cubic metre, different rates for irrigation on acreage versus house use, but it's way too expensive.
Happy to have any rain we get...it's free.
But the buggers are probably trying to figure out how to put a meter on the roof to track how much rain falls from the sky.
😆 😆

Barb

Haven't been on in a while folks. Hope everyone is well. love all the posts in this thread. Love the tree fern pics too. How hardy are they ? I see ferns all over here, but don;t know they get very tall since everyone rips them out of the ground all the time. They are basically treated as weeds. Wonder why????

Still summer like here, low of 69 last night....and way too humid...UGH!

.........and at some point back again.

I do wonder if this drought is going to spread north
more still and if this summer wasn't a preview.

If this trend isn't reversed now through spring,
next summer could be rough again!

Very nice ferns Jim!!!! They dont look as bad as you describe!.

Also, that Phyllostachys Nigra looks pretty good!

As for the drought spreading north..... The summers here havnt been too bad. My city has never had any thing to be concidered a "drought", but I CAN say the summers in general have been drier then I can remember.

This summer wasnt too bad. The last month has been very dry, maybe an inch of rain (untill last night, we got about 30MM (roughly 3/4 of an inch) of rain.

Last summer(2010), was VERY dry from april - august, and you could see the lack snow melt, and rain by june. The lake was down roughly 15 feet, the rivers were super low, and you can tell the ground water was diminishing.

I hope you get a decent amount of snow this winter. That might help you out in the spring

Barb

I water the Sequoia often.

Mike

These T.ferns actually grow into trees!

The Cooperi are the least hardy and can have leaf
damage from less than 28F.
The D.antarctica are the most hardy and can take
down to low 20s,some have survived less.

Jesse

A lot of plants are burned up this year,the main damage
to the T.ferns was some deformed leaves but otherwise
they look pretty good-except for the 2 that are in the most sun,
they got pretty fried.

Jim,

The Sequoia tree is just too cool. Have always liked them since taking trips to California when I was a kid. I see they are easily bought through ebay.

How long have you had yours in the ground? and how long do you have to keep protecting it over the winters?

Scott/Omaha

Haven't been on in a while folks. Hope everyone is well. love all the posts in this thread. Love the tree fern pics too. How hardy are they ? I see ferns all over here, but don;t know they get very tall since everyone rips them out of the ground all the time. They are basically treated as weeds. Wonder why????

Still summer like here, low of 69 last night....and way too humid...UGH!

Ostrich and cinnimon fern can get to about 6 feet, and purple royal fern can get that big, but looks like small mini tree ferns. Nothin like the 20, 30 40 feet tree ferns can get...

Haven't been on in a while folks. Hope everyone is well. love all the posts in this thread. Love the tree fern pics too. How hardy are they ? I see ferns all over here, but don;t know they get very tall since everyone rips them out of the ground all the time. They are basically treated as weeds. Wonder why????

Still summer like here, low of 69 last night....and way too humid...UGH!

Ostrich and cinnimon fern can get to about 6 feet, and purple royal fern can get that big, but looks like small mini tree ferns. Nothin like the 20, 30 40 feet tree ferns can get...

WOw cool...Thanks for the info

Jim,

The Sequoia tree is just too cool. Have always liked them since taking trips to California when I was a kid. I see they are easily bought through ebay.

How long have you had yours in the ground? and how long do you have to keep protecting it over the winters?

Scott/Omaha

I got mine through e-bay from a great seller!

In a few years it will do better in winter although I think it
will always brown out to some degree.

I believe this will be it's 4th winter.

It was this big when I bought it-

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-GIANT-SEQUOIA-SEQUOIADENDRON-GIGANTEUM-REDWOOD-TREE-SEEDLING-CONTAINER-2010-/260872892113?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cbd3c6ed1

Barb

Mike

These T.ferns actually grow into trees!

The Cooperi are the least hardy and can have leaf
damage from less than 28F.
The D.antarctica are the most hardy and can take
down to low 20s,some have survived less.

Thanks for the info..... 😆