Alan Zucker
23-01-2003, 02:53 PM
Why would you need to bring in the azalea and trident maple? On Long Island
I keep them out healed in with mulch in a location protected from the wind.
Have not had any causualties in previous years.
Alan Zucker zone 6b
You're never to old to learn. You can learn from both beginner and expert.
>From: Jim Lewis >
>Reply-To: Jim Lewis >
>To:
>Subject: [IBC] ****Hey! I thought I lived in FLORIDA!
>Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 09:09:56 -0500
>
>Well, I finally will have to do it. Eight or ten of my trees
>will be coming inside for the next 2 nights -- 5 azalea, a
>boxwood, a couple of crape myrtle, a Podocarpus, maybe a trident,
>and maybe a pomegranate.
>
>The rest stay outside -- the mame and smaller shohin covered with
>about 2 feet of old hay, and the rest (Chinese elm, various
>hornbeam, Osage oranges, junipers, pears and apples, red maples,
>etc.) putting Darwin's "survival of the fittest" to the test ;-)
>. I may leave my sprinklers on all night -- in which case look
>for some pics of icy and icicled bonsai in the gallery this
>weekend.
>
>Our temps are supposed to drop into the single digits tonight and
>low pre-teens tomorrow night. Wind chill (which the trees don't
>mind or care about, but _I_ do) is expected to be zero or below.
>
>There's no escape. It's supposed to drop into freezing temps
>almost down to the Florida Keys tonight. You folks with outdoor
>tropicals, take care!
>
>And yeah, I know it's colder in lots of other places . . . but
>you are supposed to be adapted and ready for it.
>
>Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Our life is
>frittered away by detail . . . . Simplify! Simplify. -- Henry
>David Thoreau - Walden
>
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I keep them out healed in with mulch in a location protected from the wind.
Have not had any causualties in previous years.
Alan Zucker zone 6b
You're never to old to learn. You can learn from both beginner and expert.
>From: Jim Lewis >
>Reply-To: Jim Lewis >
>To:
>Subject: [IBC] ****Hey! I thought I lived in FLORIDA!
>Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 09:09:56 -0500
>
>Well, I finally will have to do it. Eight or ten of my trees
>will be coming inside for the next 2 nights -- 5 azalea, a
>boxwood, a couple of crape myrtle, a Podocarpus, maybe a trident,
>and maybe a pomegranate.
>
>The rest stay outside -- the mame and smaller shohin covered with
>about 2 feet of old hay, and the rest (Chinese elm, various
>hornbeam, Osage oranges, junipers, pears and apples, red maples,
>etc.) putting Darwin's "survival of the fittest" to the test ;-)
>. I may leave my sprinklers on all night -- in which case look
>for some pics of icy and icicled bonsai in the gallery this
>weekend.
>
>Our temps are supposed to drop into the single digits tonight and
>low pre-teens tomorrow night. Wind chill (which the trees don't
>mind or care about, but _I_ do) is expected to be zero or below.
>
>There's no escape. It's supposed to drop into freezing temps
>almost down to the Florida Keys tonight. You folks with outdoor
>tropicals, take care!
>
>And yeah, I know it's colder in lots of other places . . . but
>you are supposed to be adapted and ready for it.
>
>Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Our life is
>frittered away by detail . . . . Simplify! Simplify. -- Henry
>David Thoreau - Walden
>
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