Tropicals & Tender Perennials: "floppy skin", 1 by Kell

Kell wrote:
Well Gary, come on over. I can literally show you about 300 with it. LOL And now we are getting rain so the fungus will start I am sure.

Christie is your yard as devastated as mine? My roses are the only thing that thrived during all this. Thank goodness I have tons of those.

I bet this is what the colder regions of brug growers see this every winter, here it is novel. In the 30 years I have lived here we have never had this much cold and for so long. But oddly my HUGE 25 year old bougainvillea that had no protection will make it with only about 25% dieback and also my 25 + year old HUGE staghorn. It wasn't even touched. Those are my 2 plants I am so attached to, so I cannot be too sad. But I have got to say, the brugs bit the dust. I think those I covered will bounce back but any I didn't are history.

Sadly, all my in ground tibouchinas may be toast too which would be a great loss to me though they will grow fast when I plant new ones. And to my great chagrin, my beloved Distictis 'Rivers' vine looks dead. It always did fine in the few frosts we have had before. I had an orange rose that intertwined with it the last year or so for such a gaudy show of orange and purple, so I am not happy about starting a new vine again. But oh well.......... change is what life is all about.