Tropicals & Tender Perennials: frost damage, 1 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
That Schefflera has been through many a frost, and a freeze here and there in the past, and has always re-sprouted when the weather warms. But, we've had nothing like we experienced this winter with 9 straight nights of below freezing temp's. I have a feeling it will take a lot more to totally kill that Scheff! I kind of wish it would be dead ... I made the mistake of planting it as a small plant next to the screened pool area ... really dumb idea as the root system does a lot of damage to cement foundations. We had our old pool and deck resurfaced year before last and there were some huge cracks in the cement deck that I'm pretty sure were from that tree's roots! I haven't checked the branches and wouldn't be too sad it the freeze actually killed the roots but I have a feeling the tree is alive and well and just waiting to re-sprout once again!

The Dracaena marginata on the south side of the house got hit by the cold too but it looks to still have life to it so eventually it will be pretty again.