RE: [Weather] Brrrr!!! Will these plants survive?
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: RE: [Weather] Brrrr!!! Will these plants survive?
  • From: E* H* <e*@mymts.net>
  • Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 19:34:36 -0600
That must have been how I called you Sharon, and not Scarlet, sorry.  :O

Glad the temps were a lot warmer than I thought.

El, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Z3

> From: SDAyres2@aol.com
> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 19:53:36 -0500
> Subject: Re: [iris] [Weather] Brrrr!!! Will these plants survive?
> To: iris@hort.net
>
> Interesting! The degree symbol I inserted into the my last message
> modified the number. The minimum is minus 10 degrees not -80 degrees. Boy
that
> would have been cold! The high was 15 and not 150 degrees F. That would
> have been a little warm! I will avoid adding that symbol in all future
> messages.
>
> Scarlett
>
>
> In a message dated 2/3/2011 5:43:00 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,
> SDAyres2@aol.com writes:
>
> 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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