Hi,
Welcome to ish! I also have a job, got to pay a mortgage so no choice really!
Hello from Finland !
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Cool. I think I'm in the forest. Lots if trees but no computer forum. Maybe some other day.old tree man wrote:.. if you go onto our computer forum it explains how to upload photos, i asked the same thing not long ago.
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Thanks Helsbells. Yeah "mortgage" is certainly one of my future issues to deal with too unless I find a rich (and good-looking and kind and smart and... OR very very old) man.
Jackie
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Yeah that's what I thought too when I saw the flower first time. And yes, so far it has been hardy! and last winter was far colder for a few weeks. Some days were close to -30. It somewhere said for this plant "hardiness: USDA Zones 4 - 8". I dunno what these zones mean... !?!
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Aha - I have these zones in a book.Jackie wrote:Yeah that's what I thought too when I saw the flower first time. And yes, so far it has been hardy! and last winter was far colder for a few weeks. Some days were close to -30. It somewhere said for this plant "hardiness: USDA Zones 4 - 8". I dunno what these zones mean... !?!
Zone 4 is -23 to -29C.
My book shows the map of north America with the different hardiness zones, then an equivalent map of europe showing the same zones. Unfortunately Finland is off the map!!!
The lower the hardiness zone the colder the area.
I live in zone 8 (-7 to -12C), the same zone as most of the UK. West coast UK is in zone 9 (-1 to -7C) and just the Grampians in Scotland is in zone 6.
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Yes you are right. Did you see it on floridata.com? Another English name for it is beebalm.Millymollymandy wrote:Just googled the latin name - I thought it was bergamot and it is!
I have read that this plant has may hybrid 'versions'. I think that hybrid Monarda 'Jacob Kline' on floridata.com comes quite close, same color.Millymollymandy wrote:Yet your photo looks much more exotic than the 'ordinary' bergamot.
