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[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 ************************************************** ****************************** ++++Sponsored, in part, by Jerry Meislik++++ ************************************************** ****************************** -- The IBC HOME PAGE & FAQ: http://www.internetbonsaiclub.org/ -- +++++ Questions? Help? e-mail +++++ |
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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 ================================= 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 ************************************************** ****************************** ++++Sponsored, in part, by Jerry Meislik++++ ************************************************** ****************************** -- The IBC HOME PAGE & FAQ: http://www.internetbonsaiclub.org/ -- +++++ Questions? Help? e-mail +++++ |
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