All protected Barb...............(we'll find out in a few weeks). 😆

too bad temps keep dropping............still zone 7b............if you can call those temps 7b? I can't complain but it will be a good test for the Eucalyptus debeuzevillei.

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Seems your temps rebound fairly quickly though.
Not 5 weeks straight of 18F 😆

8 weeks until spring...can't wait. 🙄
So fed up with winter.

Barb

I hope this is wrong: temp may drop to -4F in few days 🙁

Minus 36 at the airport -30 in my yard

Yes, it finally hit here too and we even got snow last night....Trachies are blanketed and covered...Did ti yesterday, finally. I was hoping not to do it. 🙁

Minus 36 at the airport -30 in my yard

Holy cow! And I was whining about upcoming -4F... 😯

Finally went below zero officially(-1F) after almost 2 years-but.....still above zero at
my place so far(+1F).....just about 23 months now with no sub-zero readings.

I could only do a drive by message this morning..... but when I woke up, the weather network said -37C. Felt like -47C with the windchill (again, says the weather network). My thermometer said -30C (still, not bad relatively speaking).

I heard some people say they reached -40C further inland.

its -18C outside right now (at the airport), which is almost 20C warmer than this morning. Luckily we got a foot of snow the other day, so the ground and low plants are more then protected. The worse thing is I planted 7 fruit trees last year, and more then 70 perrenials (rhodies, sage, etc) and have more then 20 potted plants outside as well. Luckily all the pots are buried in snow.

IF I were growing palms in a box, the thermocube would explode.......

-30F could be the end of my palms...thats what I was worried about when
I started this thread...luckily we have not seen that kind of cold,I think the Princeps
has the most heat and could stay at 10F in -30F temps-it would probably spear-pull from that.

Hey Jim, how about an additionl blanket cover over the Washy and more tender palms
Any additional airspace will keep the Christmas lights warmth longer.
The effort would be worth it.

Heck, I'd be out looking to buy more Christmas lights....

Yeah, Jesse I saw that -37C re your place on the Weather Channel this morning.

Those weatherguys DID see this...two weeks ago.

Barb

Well I guess its positively tropical here after seeing your double digit minus Fahrenheit readings 😯 We are looking at milder weather albeit wet arriving the weekend... much needed as the plants in my shed are not getting any decent light

Yikes... I've just been watching ABC news with the big freeze over there. I like the part where someone in Minnesota put a wet shirt outside for five minutes and brought it back in like stiff cardboard. 😯