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Anybody covering stuff up tonight?

Posted by pam_3 GA 7b (My Page) on
Wed, Feb 13, 08 at 20:46

I've got a pretty wonderful Daphne in bloom, and I was wondering if I should cover it up tonight. It's in a fairly protected spot. I'd sure hate to lose those fragrant blooms, tho. Help!


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RE: Anybody covering stuff up tonight?

Protection is not necessary. This is one of the Winter blooming Daphne species, hardy to Zone 7 (about 0°F).
Rb


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RE: Anybody covering stuff up tonight?

Thanks Rb. I've got my PJ's on, and figured it just wasn't going to happen. I'm off to bed.


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RE: Anybody covering stuff up tonight?

I love this Land.
I love the Lady.
I love the Layout of luscious levies lustrously letting me enLighten them
The lavender lilies and jasmine long for the lustful scents elongated from the land.
I loathe the languish of cold!
Long live the layers of loving life.


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RE: Anybody covering stuff up tonight?

Happy St. Valentine's Day everyone!
It's clear and cold everywhere in GA this morning.
All reporting stations are at or below freezing, except Brunswick(34°F) and it may reach freezing by sunrise.
Just a reminder that winter is not yet finished with us!
Looking forward to spring, just 35 days away, maybe I can warm up and get moving again!
I also enjoy the fragrance and flowers of Daphne odora. Have 5 near my front entrance, 3 near the rear driveway and one on patio (potted). They, along with dozens of Hellebores, brighten up an otherwise dreary landscape during the harshness of winter.


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RE: Anybody covering stuff up tonight?

I covered newborn seedlings, tender vegetable plants. I had lost so many young vegetable plants during this winter that I just couldn't bear to think of it happening again, so I went out in 26 degree cold and spent an hour covering a garden bed with straw mulch and cardboard.

Then I forgot to bring in my lemon verbena plant and a really nice houseplant from the porch, and both of them seem to have bit the dust. It was 23 degrees the next morning. I guess I can't remember everything.


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