The word is actually 'n0ne' - it looks like the code they used to display our zones is actually NOT supposed to show the word 'n0ne' if we haven't entered the zone, but the function they put in place to strip it from the zone area was mistakenly placed on the post itself. Thus: 'none'lectrified 'none'xistent bar 'none' 'none' of your business I think I've noticed this stripping in posts going back years and years - at least until 2005 - but didn't really pay attention to people's silly typos :) until it happened to me in a recent post and it happened to caroliniannjer in such an ...odd... way. my goodness. ~emmers

In light of drought across the state - even here in the normally damp SF Bay Area, we only got an inch or two of rain between October and February - I should consider heat/drought tolerance. Does Autumn Damask get by there, on its own roots? Centifolias? When I brought Portland breeding up towards the end of May, the thread grew to 25 posts in the first day, but since it's been just us and the sound of crickets in this thread, I'm guessing I'll be continuing this as a solo project. I'll probably post updates every 6-12 months, depending on how interesting the offspring are looking. And since no thread on breeding is complete without a picture of a seedling, here's a dinky moss. Disease free despite having never been sprayed, but that's all I can say at this point.

Well, since conspiracy and crazy have more in common than both starting with the letter 'c', as we all know, I'm personally glad that this is stirring the Opuntia pot - great plant genus, from the Peace River in northern British Columbia to Tierra del Fuego - how can you not dig this cactus genus? And the only genus with glochids - yikes, it just gets better and better. Anyway, my point is that you might not want to depend solely on N. Lord Britton's description - something might have happened since then. Is your well-known expert updating what was originally described by NLB?

I was able to clear a large area of quack grass a few years ago by taking advantage of August drought. By spading up the entire area and turning the quack grass roots into the hot sun, they eventually cooked to death. The area is still free of that vermin today.