We had three nights of below-freezing weather last week. I'm worried now about all my plants at home.
Like many people, I have some plants in the front yard, and a bunch more in the back yard, hidden by the fence. Mrs. Webber and I call our back yard the "Garden of Eden".
Now that the really cold weather has passed, our "children", as we call our plants, don't seem to be doing so well. The freezes, no doubt, damaged them.
The ivy we had in a planter ringing the oak tree in the front yard is gone. Just their wilted, brown stalks are left. The leaves disappeared. The oak is OK, though. Two of the shrubs in front of the house need replacing. The short oleanders in front seem to have survived.
In the back, the fig tree that had grown taller than me, reaching for the sky, is wilting. In past years, freezes killed the part above ground. The roots have survived and send another tree shooting skyward. We'll see if the roots survived three days of freezing and if they will regrow the tree again.
Other annuals, such as our elephant ears and other perennials (I don't remember the name) we had throughout our shady back yard are wilted, damaged or killed by the cold. They would have probably made it had we not had the cold strike us.
The other oleanders we had along the back fence seem to have made it. I'm waiting to see how our plants in the sunny patch did.
The plants we have in pots, that we brought inside, need to go back outside.
Hopefully we won't get any more freezing weather this year!
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