I appologize, i didnt read this very well before posting a reply. My
tomatoes and melons are covered. My perrenial flowers i left alone.
The weather man said it would probably only freeze for 2 hrs, but i
didnt want to chance it.
I am not one to give advice on flowers.



On Tue, 08 Apr 2003 22:13:14 -0500, mike wrote:

It has been above freezing for several weeks now and everything is
blooming and leafing out. But tonight it is going to get down to 26.

I have hostas, lots of irises, daylilly, roses, peonies and tons of
other perennials coming out of the ground and leafing back out. I do
not have much to cover my plants and I covered my roses first - what
types of things would be most likely to be killed? Or will it just
kill plants back and force them to come out again?

I was also concerned about my autumn olive which is blooming for the
first time. I assume it will kill the blooms and thus the fruit even
if no serious damage is done to the shrub itself. I hate late
freezes.