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Originally Posted by FlDebra  We usually don't have to deal with too much on the cold extreme. I spent this last weekend planting flowers and Sunday night out of the blue, we had a freeze! All my pretty flowers froze. I guess I should have looked at the weather, but I could count on one hand the number of times we have had below freezing temps in a year. I had planted my flowers with nothing but a light sweater on, and that was only because of the wind. But that wind was bringing in the freeze.  I was so discouraged after all my hard work (muscles are still sore from all that stooping and bending!) that I told my hubby I was going to stick a plastic tulip in each one and call it done! JK -- I will probably try again in a couple weeks. At least the weeds are all pulled and new mulch looks nice. |
I hear you on that one Debra, I feel so bad for you! Yesterday the tree trimmers came to trim the palms, and olive trees we have out front. Our palms were fine, but the olive trees froze on the top, what a mess. I lost so many plants this year in just one night from the freeze, that happened a month or so ago. I had 4 ~ten year old plumerias that were stunning, I paid $30.00 for them when they were small, after ten years they were big, and worth 10X that much, gone, frozen to death. They were the highlight of our backyard. Today I am prunning my 50+ pots in the back, all my hibiscus froze, along with some gorgeous cactus, I am just sick. I had no idea that freeze was going to be so harsh. Tomorrow, I start planting flowers in the front, if they freeze I will have to shoot myself. But, I'm hoping I'm safe, it's in the high 70's here today.
Here is a picture of one of my plumerias taken during the summer, not a great picture, but non-the-less, you get my point. (to the left, across the pool, yellow flowers) I had three more, one in each corner of our pool, gone!