Carolina Gardening: 27 in Bluffton tonight???, 0 by ardesia

ardesia wrote:
It is funny but the closer you are to Hwy 17/I-95 the colder it gets. I live out on the sea islands towards Hunting Island and it is always 10 degrees warmer here in the winter than it is around Hwy. 17 at Gardens Corner.

Picked my first Ponkan tangelo today and it was over the top sweet. My Oleanders do not look phased at all by the cold (it got down to 32 here). My Bouganvilla has a few crispy leaves, but only a few and a geranium has reddish leaves it did not have before the cold. There was damage to a white justicia which is in a pot and I believe it might have been too dry when the cold hit. I covered my tropical hibiscus on the deck with row cover and they have done fine also. Coleus were the only real casualties but If I cut them back they will bounce back quickly.