Anyone have frost damage yet?

I lived in Reseda and attended Reseda High. We almost always went to Fraser Park for snow. I attended a religious seminar at Lake Arrowhead when in my twenties but it was the middle of summer. I have been skiing once at Big Bear (that's all it took to convince me I wasn't a skier).

By the way, we are supposed to go down to 30 degrees low tonight and 29 degrees tomorrow night's low. I hope my blueberries (in containers) are getting a cold enough season....LOL.


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Thanks,

Chuck

Stay warm, Anna !

doss, it was kaperc who mentioned Gardena and Big Bear, but I can claim part of that...we used to go watch the races in Gardena... midgets and sprints. Friends of the family used to own the old Navaho Hotel in Big Bear, so spent a lot of time there too. I don't get up there very often, too much ugly traffic between here and there, but try to make it up there at least once in the end of summer and in the fall. To me, boats on the lake is what summer is all about.
Down to the 30's tonight? I thought it was supposed to rain? I'd better check on that. Washer went out and had to go get another (Merry Christmas). That kinda shot the afternoon. Better check the forecast.

Don't you hate that when the essential boring devices in your live fail? Merry Christmas indeed.

Friday it's supposed to go down to 33 degrees and that's pretty cold for here. Here's hoping my sea lavender that I just replaced doesn't hit the dust. I have a bunch of it because I love it so much but growing it as an annual will get expensive. Plus that they don't really show off until they've been in the ground a couple of years.

Yes, and I just rec'd an order from Annie's that I have to plant.

uh oh...you know what they say...when your washer konks out and has to be replaced, a blizzard's coming.

We have had a few light to moderate frosts here on the North coast and it is starting to frost up again tonight. My hostas are hiding for the winter and the Japanese Maples are bare but my standard fuscias are still green and blooming and VooDoo is still green and is leafing out as if it thinks it is spring for crying out loud!

Last winter Voodoo looked to be a goner from a heavy freeze but about halfway through summer it poked out a few leaves and two lonely blooms.Now that it will freeze again it is filling out nicely. I think I'm going to move it onto the patio by the heat vent and see if I can keep it going a bit better this winter.

My passion vine has bloomed year round for three years straight and looked really neat with a frost on the flowers. Strange how it doesn't seem to faze it when the pelargoniums all turned to mush.

We have had enough rain for the rivers to swell but the break we had today should keep them well below flood stages. They had snow up the highway toward Shasta but nothing stuck on the mountains near us. But it won't be long before I can look out and see snow capped mountains from my nice and comparatively warm valley ;~)

Agapanthus look horrid after dying off in a freeze but left alone they will usually come back stronger than ever as will the hardier fuscias They are more apt to die from drowning than freezes so don't give up on them too easily!

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Gosh, your p-vines bloom all year? How old are they? We planted our first one this spring (Constance Elliot) but has yet to bloom. Plus, it was ravaged by gulf frits.

The one thing that keeps on keepin' on is the duranta I got this summer. I love it.

Okay, J.D., that's one I've never heard before..lol...are you surre about that?
Well, the only good thing about new washer is that I made myself get a front loader because they use so much less water and I can use the help on my water bill and really should try to use less anyway (on something other than my garden). Because it uses less water, San Diego Water Authority is giving a $175 voucher towards water bill...that pleased me!
Raining here again...woo hoo....I don't have to go out and cover everything.
I have things in pots that didn't get planted because it was too hot and the same plants are still in pots because now I'm afraid it will get too cold. I do believe I'm gaining on the situation, though.

kaperc, my p.vine is 6 years old now. It hardly grew at all the first two years and then the third year it decided to take off and hasn't quit since! In fact,I had to cut it back last month so I could see out of the kitchen window. Silly thing grew up over the trellis and sent tendrils through the screen.

Gosh, I hope the hummers will be able to find the feeder if that happens! lol

The hummers here are getting down right pushy. If the dog or I step off the patio into the yard the little cuties dive bomb our heads as if they can scare us away from "their" flowers. They remind me of the Chijaujau that wants to mate with a Mastiff so it chases off the German shepherd in his way.

LOL!
Took me a bit to figure what breed that was, I didn't recognize it as Chihuahua until I pronounced it, always did get annoyed that I can't remember the spelling until I try it in Google.

OOps! I spelled it like I thought it would be spelled instead of looking it up. It does look better your way :~)

No damage but a little bit of frost here.

:-)

Rick

Confession: we DO have snow on the ground, but this photo was taken in March of this year. The most snow I have ever seen here. See my comment later on in the thread.

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alaska_rick BRRRRRR !

YIKES !!!!

Yeah Mike, we're complaining about the cold?!?!?!!?!
No frost damage here as of yet. Gotta protect my plumeria's though just in case.

Yes, definitely Louise! I saw so many last year bit the dust.

I have to admit y'all that I was playing a bit with you. That photo was taken in March of this year not recently. We do have snow on the ground but nothing like that. It was a record year. That is my home and there was up to 8 ft on the ground at one time.

Rick

man...that is a LOT of snow, regardless of the month !

Getting nervous. It was below freezing this morning. Darned Santa Ana winds!

It's getting mighty cold here right now. I hope no frost. Got the fire going in the firepit burning some extra wood and tree clippings that have been cluttering up the yard. I'll be outside at the firepit tonite!

Gosh, Sherry, it's been pretty windy here - how can you burn?

I'm weegy (Louise) remember Kathleen?!?!?!?!? LOL! It's not at all windy here just nippy.

LOL! Told you it was windy - my brain blew away! Had greenhouse on my mind, which made me think of Sherry.

{{weegy}}

;-) I knew it!

I wasn't home last night...I was in Central Ca, so I don't know exactly how cold it got here. A brief look around didn't show any damage, but I am worried about tonight. I've covered what I could, but there's more that should have been done. Oh well.........tomorrow a.m. will tell. When I was leaving the Modesto area at 8 this a.m., there were puddles of water along the road, and there was quite a bit of ice on them. Radio said it was 40 degrees there at 9 this a.m. I'd forgotten how much colder it gets there than here. It was very, very cold there yesterday evening and a biting wind. That's why you guys up there can grow the fruits that I can't down here!

I left Simi Valley at 3:00 a.m. on the 26th and it was 34* outside where my DS lives. By the time I got home it was 40* here...not that big a difference.

I have freesia's in bud. What's up with THAT? It's not even January yet.