On Saturday, sun together with Mon nighttime our temperatures dropped below the dreaded 32°F mark. Readers inwards chillier climes, become ahead together with mock us all you lot want. It doesn’t alter the fact that freezing temperatures are anxiety-inducing for gardeners inwards zone nine together with above—especially if you’re similar me together with stretch the hardiness envelope a bit.
On Sabbatum nosotros covered nearly of our sensitive plants. On Sunday, nosotros too draped frost fabric together with sometime sheets over many of the aloes amongst emerging flowers because those flowers are to a greater extent than prone to frost impairment that the institute itself. With several aloe species blooming for the initiatory of all fourth dimension ever, I didn’t desire to adventure losing the flowers.
This is what the neighborhood looked similar on Mon morning:
Frost on the rooftops together with lawns is a pretty sight, but I exactly don’t relish the cold. Nothing volition e'er alter that.
Frost on frost cloths is fine every bit long every bit it’s on the outside:
Many plants (like this catmint) don’t hear frost together with genuinely await quite pretty amongst a dusting of white:
A few leaves on this Agave mitis looked a flake suspicious but they ultimately turned out to endure fine:
These are the aloes amongst emerging flowers that nosotros covered on Sunday:
We ran out of stuff together with thus nosotros couldn’t embrace the entire plant, exactly the flowers (and every bit much of the front end of the institute every bit possible). The fighting inwards the dorsum did render plenty protection.
On Tuesday, later the mutual depression temperature snap had moved on, I uncovered the plants. I’m happy to written report that at that topographic point is no damage, amongst the exception of a few fried leaves on our Meyer lemon (see below).
Huernia zebrina nevertheless blooming away, fifty-fifty inwards what for us is the dead of winter
Euphorbia tirucalli ‘Sticks on Fire’ is notoriously frost-sensitive. Two layers of frost fabric gave it plenty protection.
This is evidently sometime jade institute (Crassula ovata). I await at it every bit an indicator institute because the leaves together with flowers produce teach damaged at 28°F. This jade is inwards a pot nether the palo verde tree on the border of the driveway. It was non covered together with isn’t showing whatever signs of damage.
Aloe dorotheae was badly damaged final twelvemonth when I had forgotten to embrace it. Not together with thus this year. (It was covered.)
Banksia blechnifolia, no impairment final twelvemonth when left uncovered. This twelvemonth it was covered because it’s correct side past times side to the Aloe dorotheae above.
Flowering aloes later I removed the frost covers
Aloe ferox
Aloe hereroensis, i of my favorite aloe species. See the beginnings of a blossom stem emerging?
On the minor Improved Meyer lemon inwards the front end yard, some leaves got fried on Sabbatum night. On sun nosotros threw an sometime canvass over it to foreclose whatever to a greater extent than damage.
The lowest temperature nosotros recorded was 28.4°F on Mon forenoon betwixt 3:30 together with 5:00 am. The other 2 nights it got downward to 31°F.
According to the conditions forecast, the residuum of Dec looks fine, amongst no to a greater extent than frost inwards sight. But at that topographic point are nevertheless Jan together with Feb to teach through…
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