Greetings fellow zone fivers. Please watch your forecasts for early Wednesday morning. It is projected to go below freezing here, so I am already starting to put out my terra cotta pots (upside down) and deeper pot lids to protect them. Plastic pots are great if you have a heavier saucer to weigh them down. They are projecting definite rain and snow tomorrow (Tuesday) although the temps are a little high for snow. Just have a look at your forecasts so you can protect anything that's well up and possibly sensitive.
Donna
Possible frost for zone 5?
Just checked the weather report for us. Looks like we're going to be ok here, 42 degrees dewpoint 32. Thanks for the heads up. I'll be so glad when we don't have to keep an eye on the weather anymore.
Excellent! I just didn't want anyone to lose their beauties.
Donna
Yikes ~ maybe you could send me some of your cool weather and I'll send you some heat. We're supposed to have 70's and 80's all week. That's just a little too much, too soon. My daffs and tulips just opened, for pete's sake!
Good luck with your babies!
Oh Wow - can we meet in the middle? We're getting 60's and 70's later in the week. Guess I don't have to worry about YOU!
I've already covered my lilies and put the containerized roses and hydrangeas in the garage. The frost of two years ago taught me a lesson!
Think cool thoughts.
Donna
Moby, 80's all week here too. A little warm at this point even for us! Good luck, all you you - hopefully everything will be OK. ^_^
I'm taking it easy and only put 2 big buckets on my foot high Silk Roads. There are some others up but they will have to hang tough.
Interesting here. The temp thi morning without the wind chill was 38. With the wind chill it was 30. I think it is a somewhat localized phenom, but I would have kicked myself if I had said noting and people lost lilies.
It's going down to 31 here tonight but by noon tomorrow it will be 45 and then up to 70's for the rest of the week, so I can join the warm club.
Cheers!
Donna
Thanks for the heads up Donna. Didn't get a freeze, but the wind knocked over my green house. Scared the "lites and livers" out of me. CRASH!!!!! in the middle of the night with banging and howling and screaming dogs. Thank G-d it just missed all the lilies I had potted up and were on the patio. Also got a healthy dose of the neighbours **($%^&^%##$%^&**(()$$!!!!!!!!!!! half dead should have been cut down 20 years ago white pines that line my W property line. You don't know how I hate those things. They not only ruin my roof, but I can't leave my car parked outside because the needles clog all the filters AND when they are in bloom my poor son is sick as a dog from the pollen. A friend is an allergist and has him on the strongest stuff she has and he still comes home vomiting everyday from the #$@@$ things. They throw off so much pollen it looks like a yellow blizzard out there. And the branches! OMG! All in my yard. Big ones!!!!!!!!! Bam right down on my husband's car, wham down on the kids swingset. How about my Red Bud, the butterfly garden Oh and lest I forget, my garden swing. The cursed things break off and fly clean across the yard right into my lily and rose gardens. We're not talking twigs here, were talking BRANCHES! How about whole tops of the things coming down. I've offered to pay half to cut them down but no go. If we were going to be here any longer I'd gladly pay the whole cost for the 10 of them. He has one that's totally dead and I'm expecting that to come down any day.
Got that out of my system. Hope the wind dies down so I can start getting my anuals out.
Yehudith
Yehudith,
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. What you are describing is awful but what a great email. I could visualize everything you were saying. Have you thought of a sideline as a writer? You are very gifted.
I hope things get better. Maybe you can take the white pines down a couple at a time to hold down the cost. Two in spring, two in fall?
The wind should die down. Do some therapeudic planting of annuals. You'll feel better.
Donna
We're moving this year, so he can do it himself now. As soon as the wind dies down I'm going to try to get out and get some in and somemore weeding done. One of my lilie gardens has more dandilions that lilies from all the wind born seed. I'm thinking of waiting for the lilies to come up higher before I tackle it because I don't want to step on the tiny babies, but I think the longer I wait the worse its going to get.
Yehudith, when and where are you moving to? I think you said once, but as per usual, I forgot. Sorry.
We're moving to Detroit. We hope to begone around the end of June. We're waiting for my husband's transfer papers which they don't seem to be in a rush to get to him.
Well, hopefully by then you'll have all your plants potted up and ready to go! :)
Diann
There you go! Problem solved.
Donna
Would it be nice if you could "pot" the neighbors and ship them off somewhere?
Oh.... I like that idea. I know where I would send my neighbors! ^_^
Just a heads up guys. We're trying to put a fall bulb coop together with Bluestone Perenials over on the co-op forum. They do have a nice selection, and they have Lilies.
http://bluestoneperenials.com
Its just in the thought process, but you might want to check it out
It really stormed like crazy here last night. We covered some of the tomatoes, but not the lilies. It certainly was below 28 with the windchill factor. Most of the tomatoes did OK, but the lilies took off like crazy. Asiatics and orientals from past years and this year all seemed to grow 2 inches within 2 days. New crinums, nerines and a few others all seemed to survive (peonies, too)!
Good luck all. It was nasty last night.
Oh Moby, what a lovely idea!!!
Thank you Yehudith, I'll definitely check it out.
Cathy - I'm so glad you came through OK. I was puzzled by the forecast. The forecasters said 38, and they said snow (huh?). That ole wind chill!
Donna