Use a peat-based, âsoil-lessâ mix, consisting of at least 30-50% vermiculite and/or perlite. âVioletâ soils arenot necessarily good for violets! Go by the ingredients, not the label! A bag of good soil should feel like a nice, fluffy, soft, pillow. Add more perlite to soil the wetter you plant on keeping the plant.
1 Hurricane Fran--The most powerful hurricane to make landfall in the United States during the 1996 Hurricane Season. 2  Made landfall over North Carolina with 115 mph winds in September of that year, and caused some $3.2 billion dollars in damage at the time. 3  Damage estimates are even higher today. Colonial Hurricane of 1635--Was a powerful New England hurricane that struck the Massachussetts Bay Colony in 1635 some fifteen years after the Mayflower struck land at Plymouth Rock. 2  This storm had reminded many of the pilgrims and settlers of past hurricanes that struck in the West Indies or Caribbean.
1 Hurricane Gilbert--The most powerful storm ever recorded in the Atlantic with winds of 200 mph, and a central pressure of 26.28 inches of Hg, Gilbert came ashore in the Yucatan, and then proceeded into the Gulf of Mexico before hitting the Northern Mexican town of Matamoros with only 120 mph winds. Colonial Hurricane of 1635--Was a powerful New England hurricane that struck the Massachussetts Bay Colony in 1635 some fifteen years after the Mayflower struck land at Plymouth Rock. 2  This storm had reminded many of the pilgrims and settlers of past hurricanes that struck in the West Indies or Caribbean.