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Old 02-05-2012, 01:44 AM posted to rec.gardens
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Default Frost and plants

Violet wrote:

We had very strange weather, first it was very warm for couple of
weeks, so plants started coming out outside, and then temperatures
went down and it was even snowing once. Everything pretty much
survived, however my daylilies look kind of strange - their leaves'
ends are almost white and some are like wrinkled. Did anyone have the
same experience, or do you think the daylilies will be ok?
Thanks.


established plants? ok. new sprouts. probably
also ok if they are still alive at all. i don't
think there is anything that will seriously kill
day lillies short of the next ice-age.

i have some damage on the ends of some garlic,
alfalfa, etc from the frosts, but i doubt it
will do much longer term harm.

the plants to worry about are things that are
newly sprouted which have no cold hardyness naturally
and any warm weather plants that are set out (okra,
tomato, peppers, etc.) and of course, things that
are flowering if they will bloom only the one time.


songbird