Re: [Weather] Brrrr!!! Will these plants survive?
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: Re: [Weather] Brrrr!!! Will these plants survive?
  • From: P* N* <p*@sbcglobal.net>
  • Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 09:02:51 -0800 (PST)
Here in Dallas we have had wide temperature swings too.   Last 
Sunday it was in the 70s, Monday in the 60s  and after that,  
highs in the 20s.   Our low was 11.   Today it will be above freezing,
about 36, so I hope some of the ice and snow will melt.   Since this
kind of weather is so rare, we don't have snow removal equipment.
Dallas borrowed 8 snow plows from Amarillo so the freeways can be
scraped, but that is all.   I'm wondering how my LAs will do in pots
in a frozen pond.
                                           Pat in Dallas




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-----Original Message-----
From: SDAyres2 <SDAyres2@aol.com>
To: iris <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Thu, Feb 3, 2011 6:42 am
Subject: [iris] [Weather] Brrrr!!! Will these plants survive?


It has been in the sixties quite often over the past few weeks.  Now  our
igh (southern NM, just above the Mexican border) is in the low teens for 2
ays straight!   This morning it is -80 F.   I cannot  remember a time in
he 30 years I  have lived here where it didn't get  above freezing in the
fternoon.   Once every few years it can get in  the single digits at night,
ut -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
igh temperature records with a sledge hammer.
I assume all the Irises will survive even though they have started spring
rowth.  My seedlings in pots have not poked through the soil yet.
verything is covered with 4 inches of snow.  Will they be okay?
What about the amaryllises?  evergreen daylilies? and the  dahlias?  Will I
ose them?  Can they survive 2 whole  days where  it never got above 150 F?
Scarlett

.S.  I hope the yuccas and cactus  survive.
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