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Fernie is looking for crabby woman,,,Food of the future.
 

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Ok Thanks,,,Just curious because of all the work with tree's it would suck if damage occurred.



Thats why I don't have a tree in the front yard...No time

I doo have some Elder berry bushes that bud out mid-May and often the buds get frozen and then there are no flowers/berries that summer. The stacks still come back, but they just don't bloom and have berries that summer.
 

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I doo have some Elder berry bushes that bud out mid-May and often the buds get frozen and then there are no flowers/berries that summer. The stacks still come back, but they just don't bloom and have berries that summer.



That is no good.


Val has a Christmas cactus. Stupid thing is supposed to bloom at Christmas it bloomed last week...
 

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Ya, but down in Mexico! Isn't that where those plants are from originally?


Schlumbergera is a small genus of cacti with six species found in the coastal mountains of south-eastern Brazil. Plants grow on trees or rocks in habitats which are generally shady with high humidity and can be quite different in appearance from their desert-dwelling cousins. Most species of Schlumbergera have stems which resemble leaf-like pads joined one to the other and flowers which appear from areoles at the joints and tips of the stems. Two species have cylindrical stems more similar to other cacti. In Brazil, the genus is referred to as Flor de Maio (May flower), reflecting the period in which they flower in the Southern Hemisphere.
This genus contains the popular house plants known by a variety of names including Christmas Cactus, Thanksgiving Cactus, Crab Cactus and Holiday Cactus, which are Schlumbergera cultivars, and flower in white, pink, yellow, orange, red or purple. (The Easter Cactus or Whitsun Cactus, which may also be called a Holiday Cactus and has vivid scarlet flowers in the most commonly grown form, is now placed in the genus Hatiora.) The cultivars of Schlumbergera fall into two main groups:
 

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Schlumbergera is a small genus of cacti with six species found in the coastal mountains of south-eastern Brazil. Plants grow on trees or rocks in habitats which are generally shady with high humidity and can be quite different in appearance from their desert-dwelling cousins. Most species of Schlumbergera have stems which resemble leaf-like pads joined one to the other and flowers which appear from areoles at the joints and tips of the stems. Two species have cylindrical stems more similar to other cacti. In Brazil, the genus is referred to as Flor de Maio (May flower), reflecting the period in which they flower in the Southern Hemisphere.
This genus contains the popular house plants known by a variety of names including Christmas Cactus, Thanksgiving Cactus, Crab Cactus and Holiday Cactus, which are Schlumbergera cultivars, and flower in white, pink, yellow, orange, red or purple. (The Easter Cactus or Whitsun Cactus, which may also be called a Holiday Cactus and has vivid scarlet flowers in the most commonly grown form, is now placed in the genus Hatiora.) The cultivars of Schlumbergera fall into two main groups:

Even further south than I thought......thanks for the quick lesson.:d

PS everything is even spelled correctly! Imagine that?
 
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