ScarletTricycle said:
AM: so I'm kind of confused. With all the heavy weather out west, my accuweather popped last night saying 3-6" snow this week. I just looked and now no snow? So where's it going? I went and looked and can't find a darn thing! Even the 3-6" is gone. Can I just say the last 4x of snow events we were to have have been forecasted for my area completely wrong? At this rate there should have been close to a foot already on the ground - and frankly last night at bed when I looked out it looked like powder sugar only.
Weird.
You'd think w/ all the tech out there we'd know exactly but I feel we know less yearly.
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Like any person in this beleaguered world, climate as it enfolds puzzles me ever more....I have no doubts that climate is changing and in the average warming. However, I still have those nasty late spring freezes that wiped almost all my spring blooms of roses, lilies, irises, but fortunately not my dahlias because my guardian angel ( that is my godson in flesh) covered them up. So I spend quite a lot of my thinking in devicing schemes of weather protection that are within our practical possibilities.It restricts my landscape designs as well. Given that, however I still envision a general management scheme that is plausible, given my specific conditions. I guess these musings must be either in the front or in the back of the mind of everyone here....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I watched this video with quite some interest. As I was trained during my higher education in grad school up there, into independent critical thinking, which was deemed crucial in the advancement of science, both pure or applied: in my case nature conservation science, agriculture or veterinary medicine. So when the video was announced in YT, I started to watch it and did so up to the end. She is a true independent thinker which is a great relief to me. Of its content what is most interesting is she explains clearly where climate short term forecasts stand today: UNCERTAIN!!!! is the norm, rather than the opposite. She gives arguments that are consistent to my own observations. When to rely WU, or accuweather and thus how to tweak in my own precautionary actions. If at risk, prevention and/or precautionary measures are the norm.
So my dahlia beds should be organized in such a way that a fleece cloth can cover it. Also the beds should have arches already in place so covering in the evening is straight forward. I'm planning the same for my rose beds or my lily beds. Gladioli are part of the dahlia retinue so they'll be covered as well. Daylilies don't seem to suffer that freeze. Most of them are only showing their new scapes almost a month later from the freeze, which happened Nov 17. The good side of this that I can keep my structures prepared and thus extend my blooming season in fall, by protecting them again against the first fall frosts that usually are spread out for almost six weeks, until the real hard frosts hit and stops everything.
Arturo
