How far do you go to protect your outdoor plants from frost?
 

I was amazed to see how much time these villagers spent on protecting their outdoor plants from frost tonight (all the white dots you see on the lawn is fabric draped over the plants). Kudos to them!! I just brought my pots in, and hoping for the best for the planted bushes. Do any of you go through a big ordeal to save your 'babies'?

:) Not me. If it's gonna die tonight..... it don't belong here, and tonight's forecast is for a low of only 35 anyway. :icon_wink:

Last year our hibiscus froze to death, well, it actually turned out to be suspended animation. in our yearly freeze. Thought it was a goner. Neighbor said to use it in our pellet grill as kindling or have it cremated at Baldwin Brothers but I didn't want to use my Black Friday Baldwin Brothers BOGO coupon on that. It was just dried twigs and stalks....... but to our surprise it came back even better this year. :D Moral of the story is .... save your BB coupons for the couple special.

My daughter gave me a gardenia plant last May, which I planted out back. Because it’s new and I’m still trying not to kill it, my husband put a pillowcase over it tonight. Everything else is on its own. I have one potted mum outside, and it’s survived over a year now, so it should be ok.

Being part time residents we just cross our fingers and hope for the best. Even when we are there during a frost we don't do anything because we know there are times we can not be there when there will be a frost. A couple of winters ago it appeared that we lost a bunch of plants, but they all recovered when the spring arrived.

What I want to know is why doesn't the frost kill the dam weeds?

I just cover my tomato plants everything else should be fine.

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...yes, cover the plants, and gosh I get so worried about frost and freeze down here, this is how I go out on our cold nights.
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They are outdoor plants and on their own.

Do plan to buy a snow shovel for my wife tomorrow so as to be prepared.

Hahahahahahahaha

I brought my poinsettia into the garage. The hibiscus is overgrowing the patio, so I would love if it frosted out. We had one at our first house that "died" in a frost, and I rejoiced because the fallen blossoms were staining the driveway when my husband backed over them before I could pick them up. Unfortunately it sprang back to life the next spring. And that bougainvillea (aka California interstate weed) that we inherited with this house is also welcome to bite the dust.

Today I covered just one outdoor plant (a tender mandevilla), and moved a few pots into the garage. I lost some plants that were not covered in the week-long deep freeze in December 2017, but haven’t lost any plants since then.

I had some really good guffaws from this thread.

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That reminds me of a late friend of mine. His wife asked if they could buy a dishwasher. He said, why, I married one. :boom:

Yes, I cover up my pepper plants, what’s left of them. Usually 3 or 4 time years? Tomorrow night will be night that freezes them depending on which end of villages you live in?

My Croton in the pot in the upper right of the photo has been through 3 winters, I haven't covered yet. We'll see tomorrow morning because tonight is suppose to be about 33 degrees. I bought it at Lowes for $8 in a small pot, it grows like crazy.

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