Today's Weather in Your Garden - 7

Winter coat cold?

Old fisherman saying..it's easier to take something off if you're warm than put it on if you're cold & don't have it! ☺

quietyard - I think you're smart to keep them in pots where you are. I took a shot of one of the evergreen variety that still has some pretty pink flowers on it this morning. Most of the rest of the plumerias are bare sticks right now. This is the one that we will inherit a good cutting from.

And I'm with you---I look forward to some pretty snow pictures! I could have used some cold weather today when I was soaking wet making a new garden out front.

Al - your ice shots are just amazing! I have never seen the ice/wind effect that you have shown us. Very interesting!!

Deb - Sat high of 40 & Sun high of 36. Beyond that I never believe anyway.

Wow DonnieBrook, that is an awesome plumeria! How exciting you will get a cutting from that . I should show mine the picture of that one so they know what I will now expect from them in the future! :)

Surely, we will have measurable snow on Monday morning. Shall we all report our totals?

Be here before that.

I'll report my total now.........hee hee.

quietyard - tomorrow I'll take a pic of my neighbor's sticks......you'll feel much better!! LOL

Cute, Louise!

DonnieBrook I think my snow total will probably be about the same as yours! Looking forward to the stick pictures so I will feel better!! LOL

Our neighbor has one evergreen plumeria and the others are pretty bare. One has some big seed pods on it, but I only want an evergreen one, since we aren't here in the summer months to enjoy the blooms on the deciduous ones.

DonnieBrook only one of my potted plumerias have dropped any leaves. The big three stemed plumeria that I have had for a year and another smaller one seem ready to keep growing. I guess it is not cold enough here to upset them yet. I don't think they are the evergreen type but I might be wrong.

Hate to say this, but Plumeria sounds like a disease to me!

Looking forward to reporting my total accumulation... if any.

Actually brugmansia are my disease victorgardener! I think I have 13 now! I blame this all on Dave's garden site where every new plant someone talks about I want to try!

I think I'm one of the few who has tried Brugs and is not crazy about them! I don't like the scent and they get full of bugs when I bring them in. I ditched mine this year.

Well we all get attached to different kinds of plants. I also had bad bug problems with mine this year because I had other commitments that kept me from keeping a close eye on them and boy did I pay with beetle damage and spider mites among other things. For a while I almost gave up on them! I love the scent in my Charles Grimaldi. Some of my others have no scent.

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So, quiet, you had a Brug Bug problem, huh?

Brug Bug problem. I am not sure I can say that!! Bad, Brug, Bug problem!

Funny, I have 2 brugmansia and they overwinter outside here. Not crazy about them either but they provide interest and fill up some small otherwise obscure spaces.

WaterCan2 do your brugs freeze to the ground in the winter?

Yes they do, but they are really tough plants, they take the cold and stay green when everything else has quit. They're still green now with leaves. I find that they're tougher than the Lenten Rose.

Thanks for the info. I didn't realize they would do that well in your colder climate!

Thanks Victor for the weather report - that will be warmer than here, a high of 36 today and 25 tomorrow.

28 degree's
Feels Like: 17°
Barometer: 29.97 in and rising
Humidity: 39%
Visibility: 10 mi
Dewpoint: 10°
Wind: WNW 15 mph
Sunrise: 6:54 am
Sunset: 4:01 pm
High:32
Low:21

Temp 35.9, Wind Chill 20.6° - Snow/sleet/ rain day updated to Sunday.

"Winchill 20.6" changed to "Wind Chill 20.6" - (my fingers were frozen).

This message was edited Nov 30, 2007 7:52 AM

30 and clear here.

Surprised to hear you say that about Lenten Rose (Hellebore), WC. They get a bit ratty by the end of the Winter - especially if they've been smashed by snow, but they remain green for me. Not to mention that they can start blooming in February!

That's COLD, WC!! You'd better keep those fingers covered!!

It will be sunshine-y today
The temp right now is 27*
The clouds at dawn were tinged with magenta

The humidity is rather low at just 39%

Yesterday's winds have given way to a slight
breeze from the West ~ it sounds as though the blustery winds went to Celeste's house.

The Dew Point is at 9*

Barometric pressure: 30.18 and rising

Visibility is 9 miles

Sunrise: 6:59 Sunset: 4:15

It's not that they don't stay nice into winter, it's that I've lost a few because they haven't SURVIVED winter whereas the 2 brugmansias have. I have them under one of my pines next to my patio in a sheltered location.

Pic taken in June...

Yes Candyce, I'd better use gloves in the am from now on... ☺

We're at 35 with a wind chill of 30. My feet rest on the baseboard radiator as I type. It does look nice and sunny but the thought of gardening is not appealing today.

I gotta get a portable baseboard radiator...

- Back later! - ☺

It doesn't help my fingertips with this leaky bay window but a new one will be installed soon.

I love bay windows!
This old house needs new windows for every room! I shudder with more than the chill when I think about the expense that will be! Of course, it doesn't help that we discovered after our first winter here that there was no insulation in the outside walls! So we have been rectifying that oversight - one room at a time. Two down - fifteen to go! Well, maybe not that many, but it sure seems like it!

WaterCan - I love your photo. It would do me just fine to sit at your table and look at those flowers all day long - with a laptop (for DG) and a cup of coffee, of course!

That's it!!! I can ask for a laptop for Christmas so I can sit outside in the nice weather and view DG without my family knowing what I'm doing!

Laptops are great. Would never buy a desktop again.

Thanks PrimroseSue, that’s where DW sits with her laptop and radio on Sundays, - you’d usually find me somewhere else in the back or the other side “playing in the dirt again!” like my DW says. I only sit there to eat or take a ‘breather’. ☺

41° with a wind Chill of 29.7. It ‘feels’ cold today, -even with the sun out!

Lovely little corner of the world, WC!

I love my laptop too! I can sit on our front porch and while away the hours (not often though) on it. I can't use it on my patio, because the glare is too much. Like Victor, I could never go back to a desktop!

Today was the most humid day we've had here....brutal! We bought mulch, but can't put it out until we get a cool morning. Oppressive is the word today here - even though the temp is only 80 degrees.

Let's hear the accumulations, y'all!!! I can enjoy it vicariously!

Mother Nature takes the credit DB, I'm only the maintenance guy!

I don't think we'll get much accumulation here, but up in NH & Cape Cod, well that's different!

Plants love Florida humidity DonnieBrook, it's just us people that have a hard time with it! - enjoy ☺

Hi everyone!(especially my early morning Nelson neighbor!)I love humidity and my laptop! I know I have a lot of you with the laptop, but I have found myself often the odd one out on the humidity one. It sure was cold working outside today-I could have used a little thick heavy warmth. Donnie-there is a FL band I love, their name is MOFRO and there is a line from their song "Lochloosa" that says-"I swear it's 10,000 degrees in the shade, don't ya love it"-and yes I do! In fact, I've been known to get goosebumps in the shade in the middle of summer!Have a great night all-Kath