Re: uh-oh freezes

Kitty, not surprising, we have found that one night of a freeze, after  weeks 
or days of warm weather usually doesn't hurt the plant at all, might  damage 
some foliage...but generally the ground is not frozen yet and the plant  is 
hydrated and warm enough not to be damaged.  
It is after days of really cold weather, and when the ground freezes that  
the damage occurs.  
 
Since 1989 we haven't had a really bad winter, the temp. dips down to   or 
just below freezing at night once a month or so never harm the plants other  
than the foliage of some. Even two years ago when we got 6 inches of snow, none  
of the plants froze except for a few seedlings that were coming up.  Of  
course the next day it was warm again. The temperatures are usually very  warm up 
to a sudden drop in temps, and then right back up again, so the ground  never 
freezes, thus the plants, even if they sustain damage to the foliage,  never 
completely freeze.  I suppose it would also depend on exactly how low  the temps 
get.....when we do have freezes, they don't get down past the  upper 20's if 
that....and then only for an hour or two.
 
Be interesting to see, if you do the experiment on these two plants, at  what 
point they do get damaged....how many days of cold weather preceded the  
freeze, how low the temps got, etc.
Noreen
zone 9
Texas Gulf Coast
 
In a message dated 10/14/2006 11:02:20 PM Central Standard Time,  
gardenchat-owner@hort.net writes:

Just a  note on my original uh-oh. We've finally passed throught the freeze 
dip  and  will be having more seasonal temps for awhile.  I had left one  
purple fountain grass and one Plumbago out there, fully exposed, and they  
are unscathed.  Everything out there in the tenders bed looks just as  it did 
before.

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