On 2018-03-08 1:00 PM, sanne wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 8. März 2018 17:32:40 UTC+1 schrieb Jill McQuown:
>> On 3/8/2018 11:13 AM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:

>> I felt sorry for my neighbor when the unusual cold snap hit. He went
>> out of town and left the automated sprinkler system on. All of the
>> plants in his front yard (I don't know what they are, some sort of
>> ferns) wound up coated in sheets of ice. They look to be beyond
>> redemption. Too bad, because he just put them in last year.
>
> That ice may have saved them - I remember the news when Florida Orange
> Farmers protected their plants from cold snaps by sprinkling them with
> water so that the ice insulated them from further harm.

True enough. The ice could act as an insulator. It should not hurt the
branches. Blossoms are another matter. The local cherry crop was
devastated a few years ago when we had an early warm spell that caused
the cherry trees to blossom early. The day after the blossoms came out
the temperature dropped and the cold killed the blossoms.


> The crocuses down the road survived - despite of being hit by bitter
> frost while already blooming...

Crocuses do well here in southern Ontario. They don't seem to mind
being hit with frost.



> Bye, Sanne.
>