RE: [Weather] Brrrr!!! Will these plants survive?
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: RE: [Weather] Brrrr!!! Will these plants survive?
  • From: &* S* <s*@familyszabo.com>
  • Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 20:17:18 -0500
Scarlett,

I don't think you really mean -800F, but more like -80F. If you were getting
-800F, you guys would be on the national news. Heck, even -470F makes the
national news as it did when that was the low in International Falls last
week.

(If you are seeing the degree mark in this post, you can easily do that
yourself by holding the <Alt> key while typing 0176 on the numeric key pad.)

\\Steve//


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-iris@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of
SDAyres2@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 7:38 AM
To: iris@hort.net
Subject: [iris] [Weather] Brrrr!!! Will these plants survive?

It has been in the sixties quite often over the past few weeks.  Now  our
high (southern NM, just above the Mexican border) is in the low teens for 2
days straight!   This morning it is -80 F.   I cannot  remember a time in
the 30 years I  have lived here where it didn't get  above freezing in the
afternoon.   Once every few years it can get in  the single digits at night,
but -80???   This must be what it is like  for you guys living up north.

It has been called the coldest day ever.  We are breaking low low and  low
high temperature records with a sledge hammer.

I assume all the Irises will survive even though they have started spring
growth.  My seedlings in pots have not poked through the soil yet.
Everything is covered with 4 inches of snow.  Will they be okay?

What about the amaryllises?  evergreen daylilies? and the  dahlias?  Will I
lose them?  Can they survive 2 whole  days where  it never got above 150 F?

Scarlett


P.S.  I hope the yuccas and cactus  survive.

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