tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223294603002782762.post3158650442798241044..comments2024-03-24T06:10:25.358-07:00Comments on Noel's Garden Blog: THE COLD Noel Kingsburyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09443137231998907024noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223294603002782762.post-71543219101275475822011-01-14T06:48:28.795-08:002011-01-14T06:48:28.795-08:00You see this a lot here in Portland, OR as well. I...You see this a lot here in Portland, OR as well. I see many gardens around town stuffed to the gills with plants that may be borderline hardy (we're zone 8), but also with many plants I know can't be rated for us. I don't begrudge them, if it makes them happy, but I do wonder at their indignation when those plants collapse into piles of goo during our increasingly unpredictable winters. I may have a few borderline hardy plants, but I typically think of them as annuals that may surprise me by returning the next season :-)scottweberpdxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08740930947767329183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223294603002782762.post-65860012770636040532010-12-23T09:53:06.917-08:002010-12-23T09:53:06.917-08:00I initially condemned the RHS for abandoning the m...I initially condemned the RHS for abandoning the monthly Vincent Square shows but the picture is slightly more complex: nurserymen were finding them less and less lucrative and more expensive (parking, fuel, congestion charge, etc), therefore fewer were interested in attending monthly shows. <br /><br />However, this doesn't excuse the appaulling way the RHS dismembered the committees which met at the shows. Plus, perhaps if the shows finished later more Londoners could get to them after work rather than having to take time off work to get to them?Fiacrenoreply@blogger.com