the new projected low tonight is 15-20, Glory, MsJen and Roz, is yours lower too? Wishing i had a DH like eclipse...about twice a year he says i should get some kind of plant....
Publix gave me about 35 paper bags, have them over coming back plants with pots over them, some with pots on them with bags over them, and or sheets and towels everywhere. about 40 brugs in the house, what a mess! wondering what i'll find in the morning that i missed....
Sniveling here
Yep.Mid teens are predicted here.I have plants literally stacked on top of each other in the greenhouse.
Arlene, good luck, can you bring any inside?
a pity.
Oh Arlene, I hope my baby and all of yours will be okay. We had near zero last night so I suppose you guys down south are getting a portion of that cold front. Spring will come one day......just wish I knew when. Hope you all don't loose anything.
Ms. Brugie, your baby is inside. Pebble, i have brought in about 40. have 25-30 planted in the ground that were coming back, and probably 20-25 pots still outside, not to mention my other stuff, roses blooming, bananas, and on and on.....
Oh Arlene, it just makes me sick to think that you might have frost on the plants in the morning. I hope the forecasters are wrong. Wish I could be there to help you prepare for the cold. Why does this have to happen after we have had such a nice winter up to now.......
there's no wind now, it's gonna look like napalm went off. had a 6 foot cestrum full of yellow buds getting ready to bloom, tons of all kinds of sages and other plants coming up, lantana blooming, will my amaryllis die back? my brug seedlings in the ground are on their own. couldn't move the bigger, 20-25 gallon pots, wrapped them really good, have all the sheets and a bunch of towels out in the yard. shouldn't be totally terrible, most of the brugs should come back. still sniveling...what a way to start March!
Arlene, What a shame that the weather is doing a turn around. I will keep my fingers crossed that you won't lose any of your plants.I feel bad for everyone in the warmer climates that already have plants poking out of the ground and then to get a freeze.Keep us updated.
I have a few outside in the ground and a few inside...here's hoping as I have found ice outside already.
Oh Eric. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you too. Ice outside this time of night is not good. Hope you have everything covered.This is one of the times I'm happy to live in the north as all my plants are still sleeping under several inches of snow.Keep us posted.
Arlene..what part of Florida are you in???
Eclipse, this is GATOR COUNTRY... 12 miles west of Gainesville, UF. this is record breaking cold for this time of year in florida. My DD pitches tomorrow night in this cold, high school softball. and lows near 30 predicted next monday and tuesday....yikes...
Bless y'all's hearts! I only have five little brugs Cala sent me a month or so ago and they're spending the night in the bathtub (don't trust the greenhouse until I've had it a while). Weather guys said last night was the coldest night in six years and tonight will be almost as cold. Last night's 15 degree cold bit the new clover that's in front of the barn pretty good.
Good luck all of you ~
Arlene that is so sad. Hope everything makes it. The only thing that I have blooming is a few daffodils and crepping phlox that got done the same way last year. It seems it just won't learn. The magic lilies started coming out last week, not the flower but the leaves and I think they will get the ax tonight,
Good luck to all.
Weather people wrong, low here 26, tied 1941 record low. everything i peaked at looks okay, leaving covered til tomorrow morning.
The baby brug seedlings on their own in the ground most look just fine! gonna run the sprinkler on them a little later. The rest of you have in florida have greenhouses, right? hope you did okay.
That's great news!
Arlene, glad to hear it wasn't as bad as predicted. It would have been a shame to loose all your loved plants. I know I get pretty scared when we get an unexpected freeze.
thanks, Liz and Pebble. ended up with 45 or so brugs inside, the plants in the ground i didn't cover are frosted back but will hopefully recover. SH, forgot to tell you your babies are inside, ended up putting them in pots.
Arlene, hang in there.....
by the way, the seeds that you sent me, they are doing great, I would say 96% germination, now the rest is up to me! thanks again for sharing!
I placed milk jugs full of water around my plants outside. Came outside early this morning and the milk jugs were almost solid ice...guess I'll have to wait till later to see how the plants did. The plants were insulated with plastic garbage bags....
Glory
Feb 28, 2002
We got down to 23º here this morning....I was in the greenhouse at 1AM making sure the heaters were still going and all was ok in there. Since I use those propane heaters that you attach to a bottle I always check on them before I go to bed.
I also have Amaryllis getting ready to bloom outside but they look fine....the daylilies look great...I do believe we managed to slide through this cold snap with no causalities.
Well didn't have any problems here just broke a few leaves on some brugs when I covered them up and the wind blew them a bit it stayed in the high 30's here was 42 when I got up for work at 350 am. I ducked anothger one
Pete
i brought all the potted brugs inside. i looked in the yard this am and the only thing i saw that was affected were a few daylilys.
iris, ruellas and everything else looks well. im not sure how they survived it, but im happy.
jen
I'm sure glad all of you had so little damage. Now, think about us tonight and tomorrow. We don't have plants outside, but are to get up to 12 inches of snow. This has to be the last big blow, I hope!!
I had 8-10 brugs coming back from the ground frosted...so glad the seedlings look good. supposed to be low in the 50s tomorrow night and 60s saturday night.....go figure...
We were 23 this morning too. Everything in the green house survived. We added heat to the rose house, can't afford to lose a house full of roses!! The brugs are happy and warm and blooming. We had sunshine all day and that was good. The species is blooming and smells WONDERFUL!!! My seeds from Eric and Arlene are doing great.
I don't know why I still can't get over the fact that you Floridians get such low temperatures. I think of you permanently in shorts.
Liz, you' re right..we've run the air more than the heater in the last 2 months, actually heater hasn't been on til last night. back to shorts tomorrow. how did your seeds turn out, up yet?
Everything is doing beautifully -much to my (and Brugcrazy's) surprise. Until recently, brug seed has not been what you'd call my forte!
BTW - my postie delivered my mail in shorts today. But what can I say? She works for the Post Office ~~
Arlene, So glad everything turned out well. Glad you had'nt put the babies outside yet.Thanks for letting me know.I hope those ten Brugs come back for you. I hope Eric makes out OK too. It sounds like he was hit hard with the cold. I'll keep my fingers crossed.
Brugie, I feel bad your getting more snow. We got 5" yeaterday and another storm coming this weekend. The weather is really crazy this year.So happy everyone made out well in the south.
Did y'll hear it is supposed to go down to 25 Monday? Arlene, get your bags back out; Glory, check the propane, Ms Jen, bring em back in.
Boy you guys,I don't come here for one day and disater strikes,Did everyone make it ok? Are the brugs safe,are we still going to see a brug forest at Arlenes? Arlene,are you joining the snivel club?I'm sniveling again,I got bumped AGAIN,so I'm on call again.And Chucks Mom got sicker than usual on Tuesday(she has lung cancer) Chuck spent the night there and in the Morning deceided to call an ambulance cause she was so sick.Shes still in there on a ventilator.They're only giving her a 25 percent chance of making it.Theres a black cloud hanging over me.....
Still sniveling, the cold got my wrapped bananas, my 8 foot confederate rose had been leafing out nicely, my mutabalis and smith parish roses had tons of roses burned off, golden rain trees had been leafing out, frozen off. what a trick, don't know about MS, record lows here from the 30s broken....i did have cannas coming back that were 2 feet tall, azalea flowers and young leaves burned, camellia flowers ruined. not much left for me to cover next time, except a half dozen brugs in 20 gallon pots. will be a breeze...
Gosh Arlene, maybe with some time and warm temps your plants will all come back and if they do, you will know they are strong little guys. Good luck. Hope you will be nicely surprised with some time.
CC - so sorry to hear about yur MIL. I hope they give her the best possible care. I know how rough it is on a family to see loved ones so sick. Give our best to Chuck.
CC, thinking of all of you here! not a black cloud my dear, just life. it can be grand and it can be cruel.
(((((CC)))))
CC, i was posting when you were. so sorry, lot of pain with that, doesn't sound good.
CC, I missed your post and just now caught it. I'm so sorry to hear of your mom-in-law's illness. Be strong, Chuck will need to draw from your strength. We are all here if you need us.
Thinking of you,
Shirley