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WTxDaddy
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Joined: 30 Jul 2007
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Location: West Texas (Map)
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 3:20 am Post subject: tulip & wysteria |
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One of my wysterias started to bloom today and I found another tulip strong enough to bloom - after 3 seasons! (Unusual in West Texas!)
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petunia
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Location: northern michigan
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Great picts. Your weather is ahead of ours so It'll be a month or two before I have anything up like lillies. For now I'll enjoy looking at others. Thanks for posting.
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Droopy
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Location: Western Norway (Map)
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Well done tulip! I like the Wisteria, but we can't grow them because of the frosts.
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eileen
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Location: Scotland (Map)
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:55 am Post subject: |
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Some of my tulips are beginning to bud up but no flowers yet. I hope my wisterias flower this year and look as look as yours do. 
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WTxDaddy
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Location: West Texas (Map)
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:11 pm Post subject: frosts |
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We get pretty cold here in Winter - even below 10ºF sometimes. The wysteria survives that. Is it that it gets too cold for too long in Norway?
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Netty
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Joined: 04 Nov 2006
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Location: Southern Ontario zone 5
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That Wisteria is gorgeous! I've planted a Carolina Wisteria - the only one that is hardy enough here. It didn't do too much last year so hopefully it will flourish this year.
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WTxDaddy
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Location: West Texas (Map)
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:53 pm Post subject: wysteria |
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I believe what I have are wysteria sinensis.
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Droopy
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Joined: 11 Aug 2007
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Location: Western Norway (Map)
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:57 pm Post subject: Re: frosts |
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| WTxDaddy wrote: | | We get pretty cold here in Winter - even below 10ºF sometimes. The wysteria survives that. Is it that it gets too cold for too long in Norway? |
Probably. They grow and flourish further south, but up here we can get -12 deg C/10 deg F for long periods at a time, and also several frost periods every winter. I've got a very good place to the south, and I'm sorely tempted to try one there. I think they're lovely.
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Netty
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Location: Southern Ontario zone 5
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Penny
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Location: Ontario
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Looks amazing, i am growing Wisteria from seed and so far so good.
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Sherry8
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Joined: 06 Nov 2007
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Location: Wisconsin...zone 4 (Map)
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I love the color of the Wisteria...it finally calls for 40's and 50's at the end of the week for us...thanks for bringing in a little bit of spring for us that have nothing right now..
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Droopy
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Joined: 11 Aug 2007
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Location: Western Norway (Map)
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Thanks for the link. We're in USDA zone 7, so I'll have to find something hardier.
Edit, no, I don't have to find anything hardier. I got a bit confused, because the lower the zones here, the milder the weather, which is of course quite the opposite from the US.  I'll have to get a nursery to order it for me, that's what I'll have to do!
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