[IBC] ****Hey! I thought I lived in FLORIDA!
 

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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[IBC] ****Hey! I thought I lived in FLORIDA!
 

Jim: It sounds like Tallahassee is moving into USDA Zone 7! Single digit temps!
Wow, that's really cold for this latitude. Thank heavens for greenhouses.
It's not quite so bad here. Supposed to get down to 24 deg. F tonight, so
I'll be turning off the watering system and draining the pipes this afternoon. Most
of my above ground plumbing is copper, but I don't want to take a chance on the
freeze bursting things, especially at the joints or sprinkler heads.
Alan Walker, Lake Charles, LA, USA
http://LCBSBonsai.org http://bonsai-bci.com
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Jim Lewis wrote:
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

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