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From: seb@mtgzz.UUCP (s.e.badian)
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Subject: Re: catnip, gardenias, african violets
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Date: Fri, 24-Jan-86 13:07:59 EST
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From kolling@decwrl.DEC.COM (Karen Kolling) Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969

>gardenias:  someone said drafts were a no-no.  My gardenias grow
>outside, in the wind and the rain, so I doubt the plants care
>about drafts.

Drafts in Palo Alto and drafts in New Jersey or New England are very
different things. I lived in Palo Alto for one year and I never, ever
felt a 0 degree draft blowing under the door frame there. We're 
talking COLD here.

I would imagine drafts are only a problem where the drafts are below
freezing because the temperature difference between the draft and
the inside air is so great. It probably puts the plants in shock.

In Palo Alto you don't have to worry about placing your plants too
close to a window and waking up to find the plant dead because it
froze to death when the temperature outside fell to 5 degrees.
Living in the Northeast is such a chore!

Sharon Badian
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