Northeast Gardening: Today's Weather in Your Garden - 8, 0 by DonnieBrook

DonnieBrook wrote:
Encouraging to hear, Pirl! We were successful in using the system last night and this morning, but they had to come this afternoon because of some flukey problem in the guest room that we didn't cause. Whew! I must admit that I do feel safer now. The home invasions are the things that really make me nervous. There are just too many happening near us.

We fared pretty well with the plants that we were able to cover.....at least it looks that way so far. I lost a sanguinaria that I forgot to cover, and strangely, the middle part of the BESV that I planted from Kassia's seeds, didn't look good this morning. Here is a shot of the thermometer outside our sunroom when we got up this morning. The wind chill was in the teens....so many records broken. I was so relieved to hear that all the work the farmers put in covering the vegetables paid off. Because the low dew point kept the frost risk low, we were all lucky in our pocketbooks!

Patti - I completely agree about the Edison and Ford homes. They are really a nice scale and the gardens are fantastic with so many unique and unusual plants. It's well worth the visit! They light all of those trees and plants with white lights at Christmas, so the drive down the boulevard is really pretty. I grew up on McGregor Boulevard, and it is still the road of choice for us here. It's one of the few that aren't 4 - 6 lanes, and it is lined with the royal palms that Edison had planted for miles. The town used to be a small town, but it has "gotten too big for its britches" as my Grandmother used to say. LOL