Stephieme, Please accept some of the above posts as tongue in cheek, I think you would know you were on a UK thread, my Daughter in Sunnyvale often asks advice then complains when she gets a War and peace size answer. There are of course American Gardening threads and they at times talk to us. Having walked the Malls and Shopping streets in California the people are much as you would find in any UK City though I did find them very helpful and courteous. I do hope your tree thrives.
Yes I am in the UK but even we get heatwaves. My lime tree in my conservatory was cooked twice at 40C it is only two years old too. The new growth died but the plant seems to be surviving so there is hope.
Purplerallim, I learned a long time ago to put everything outside the conservatory from April to September. here in Durham we had temperatures of 24 -28 for nearly five days and another three days this week. You cannot leave the Conservatory wide open at night as you can a green house so better safe than sorry the plants go out.
I wasn't trying to upset anyone with my UK comment. I was simply replying to one of the posts. I've found you all, we'll most of you, very helpful and kind. I still think it was a clever retort. Lol
Hi Steph... I was born and raised in Riverside, CA (and went to John North High) although now I live in England. As a child, you could smell the orange blossoms all over the city in the spring. I hated gardening when I was in CA, although my uncle was in charge of trees in Riverside for awhile (he's now retired) and put in drought-resistant planting in Claremont so pretty people assumed it was wasting water when really it was using less than the grass. It's so much easier here where things grow whether you plant them or not. My dad and uncle always had gorgeous and drought-resistant gardens but I know next to nothing about growing CA plants because I wasn't interested then. I'm always surprised on FB when friends show their tomatoes or hops or whatever about 5 months before ours.
We've had quite a few Americans come onto the forum recently. I don't think there's any way to tell right off that it's UK based. The web address is .com and I'm guessing the ads are personalis/zed to location. I miss tangelos! The UK is a wonderful place with many great people but some quite enjoy putting down Americans, with comments that can be downright hateful and wouldn't be tolerated about any other country. Fortunately, those people are in a minority. Mostly I think the regulars on this forum just aren't certain when asked about plants/conditions that we don't have here.
http://homeorchard.ucanr.edu/ This is from UCR's Citrus Station and if you browse around the page, they may have places you can write for help. Of course you are welcome on this forum as well.
I wasn't trying to upset anyone with my UK comment. I was simply replying to one of the posts. I've found you all, we'll most of you, very helpful and kind. I still think it was a clever retort. Lol
So why send it as a private message?
If you thought it was " clever" , why not post it in the Forum?
Lots of Brits still use Farenheit in summer. "coo it's 90 degrees" e.g. but in all my life, I've never once heard anyone in UK use Farenheit when talking about a winter minimum. " it was -5 last night" Why is that?
Do we like the idea that 82 F sounds a lot hotter than 28C? and that -5C sounds a lot colder than 23F?
In general terms, I think Farenheit is a nonsense scale as there's no logic to it.
Water freezes at 0C and boils at 100C , I'm sure we can all ( even americans) relate to that?
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England, gosh, how 16th century.... Lol
Well, you are on a UK based forum after all!
Stephieme, Please accept some of the above posts as tongue in cheek, I think you would know you were on a UK thread, my Daughter in Sunnyvale often asks advice then complains when she gets a War and peace size answer. There are of course American Gardening threads and they at times talk to us. Having walked the Malls and Shopping streets in California the people are much as you would find in any UK City though I did find them very helpful and courteous. I do hope your tree thrives.
Frank.
Yes I am in the UK but even we get heatwaves. My lime tree in my conservatory was cooked twice at 40C it is only two years old too. The new growth died but the plant seems to be surviving so there is hope.
Purplerallim, I learned a long time ago to put everything outside the conservatory from April to September. here in Durham we had temperatures of 24 -28 for nearly five days and another three days this week. You cannot leave the Conservatory wide open at night as you can a green house so better safe than sorry the plants go out.
Frank.
I wasn't trying to upset anyone with my UK comment. I was simply replying to one of the posts. I've found you all, we'll most of you, very helpful and kind. I still think it was a clever retort. Lol
Hi Steph... I was born and raised in Riverside, CA (and went to John North High) although now I live in England. As a child, you could smell the orange blossoms all over the city in the spring. I hated gardening when I was in CA, although my uncle was in charge of trees in Riverside for awhile (he's now retired) and put in drought-resistant planting in Claremont so pretty people assumed it was wasting water when really it was using less than the grass. It's so much easier here where things grow whether you plant them or not. My dad and uncle always had gorgeous and drought-resistant gardens but I know next to nothing about growing CA plants because I wasn't interested then. I'm always surprised on FB when friends show their tomatoes or hops or whatever about 5 months before ours.
We've had quite a few Americans come onto the forum recently. I don't think there's any way to tell right off that it's UK based. The web address is .com and I'm guessing the ads are personalis/zed to location. I miss tangelos! The UK is a wonderful place with many great people but some quite enjoy putting down Americans, with comments that can be downright hateful and wouldn't be tolerated about any other country. Fortunately, those people are in a minority. Mostly I think the regulars on this forum just aren't certain when asked about plants/conditions that we don't have here.
http://homeorchard.ucanr.edu/ This is from UCR's Citrus Station and if you browse around the page, they may have places you can write for help. Of course you are welcome on this forum as well.
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I wasn't trying to upset anyone with my UK comment. I was simply replying to one of the posts. I've found you all, we'll most of you, very helpful and kind. I still think it was a clever retort. Lol
So why send it as a private message?
If you thought it was " clever" , why not post it in the Forum?
" LoL"
Watery Can Americans be put down? I am sure there are plenty of jokes in the USA about our quaint British ways .
As a matter of interest how many British posters on here still use our "Imperial" measures" Farenheit?.etc
I tend to use metric measurements for everything but road miles these days.
(Mind you I cannot cope with American cup measures in online recipes .)
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
Here's one!
Lots of Brits still use Farenheit in summer. "coo it's 90 degrees" e.g. but in all my life, I've never once heard anyone in UK use Farenheit when talking about a winter minimum. " it was -5 last night" Why is that?
Do we like the idea that 82 F sounds a lot hotter than 28C? and that -5C sounds a lot colder than 23F?
In general terms, I think Farenheit is a nonsense scale as there's no logic to it.
Water freezes at 0C and boils at 100C , I'm sure we can all ( even americans) relate to that?
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