Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Weather woes, everywhere you go, 1 by Clare_CA

Clare_CA wrote:
Thanks for your email, Kell, and for that valuable information. I won't do any more cutting of leaves or branches. Yeah, my back is really messed up. You are right that all the lifting and moving pots is really killer on the back, not to mention trying to put up tarps with 25 mph wind gusts in freezing weather! LOL! I can laugh now, but I actually did cry when the heavy rocks that I put on the tarp on the retaining wall were launched by the wind into my plumerias. They broke a few branches, and when I tried to put the tarp back, I fell off of my step stool. It was not a pretty sight, but I'm all right. I'm just stressed and worried about my poor babies in the yard. I lit a smudge pot and put it on the patio, but it surely didn't generate much heat.

Mary, I'm so sorry for you too. My fingers are crossed for you too, and I'm glad that you have some in a greenhouse that will be saved. I bought two more greenhouses today just in case this happens again in February. If not, I can always use them next year. I found a site that has a sale right now on the same one which I got this past fall: http://www.comforthouse.com/flowerhouse1.html Yes, I agree that this whole country is getting hit with cold and ice and snow with the exception of maybe South Florida. Colorado has gotten three major snow storms all in a row, which may also be a record for them.

Here is my greenhouse: