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Your winters must be quite a bit warmer, we have enough cold nights that it just survives (Seatte). Years (and years) ago my parents had some, it top froze every year and they never did get blooms.
But it will grow almost anywhere, reading up on it I learned that it's being planted on mine tailings... where it grows
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Not to hear my parents tell the story. We get plenty of snow down here in VA, nothing like we had in MI, but more than you get in the Seattle area. It's much colder for a lot longer as well. When I look at the weather map most nights, it looks like we match temps in the spring and fall, you're colder during the summer and warmer during the winter. Don't know what to tell you. I piled a bunch of it up and so did a friend of mine, loaded up my F-150, for free.
Dave in Fairfax
This discussion lead to (re)do some research and found some hype sites, but if I go to
Peter I found this site
Richard
My thanks to everyone for contributing. I had never thought that my simple request would develop into such an interesting discussion. There are many trains of thought that are surely going to prove useful.
Thanks again, it is always reassuring to realise just how many friends one has across the globe who are indulging the woodturning passion.
Regards, Peter Charles Fagg Freshwater, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.
They're waiting for you to read the literature they left.
Jimmy Carter (yes, the woodworker and submariner) grows a substantial quantity of it.
Grows well, but needs a reliable water supply, or so I'm told.
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