Post your coldest temps of the 2011/12 winter

[lucky1]

sudden Stratospheric warming

SSW

Sending you our AB to compensate.
Arctic Blast.

Have you crammed your potted plants into the house, Andy?

Barb

[hardyjim]

No way Andy-we just finally got rid of ours!




March can be a strange and trying month here...during the cold winters
of a couple years ago,we had winter like temps almost all month one year,don't even think
it got up to 70F once but last year we averaged close to 70F(66F) and had a week+
of temps near/above 80F-did that ever pop start the season after one of the warmest
winters in history....not a common occurrence getting so warm after a warm winter.....

It was the first winter I could find going back 35+ years that it never went below zero,
we have not gone below zero this year either but we have a long way to go-losing the snow cover helps!

[DesertZone]

We had a high today of 13F/-10.5C here we go again.

Our normal avg for the coldest part of the year is 33/18f, those temps I could only wish for now.

I may lose my biggest Y faxon, but that's the way it goes. If so, I will replace it with something else.

[TimMAz6]

Jim, your climate is the worst............super hot in summer and super cold in winter...............I'm glad I live near an Ocean.

Aaron, keep that cold out there..........I don't want it.

[lucky1]

I may lose my biggest Y faxon,

Oh no.
I'd tear apart a cardboard box and wrap it around the trunk, tied with string.
And a blanket for a hat.

Hang in there, Aaron...hopefully this crap ends on Tuesday.
I've stared at the east Pacific satellite pic for 2 days, and the bloody thing won't move away.


Here's a max/min link (select any Region):

http://www.daculaweather.com/4_world_ex ... United%2BS

The point being we don't want to see our home city on either the MAX or the MIN, right?

Barb

[marceli]

I may lose my biggest Y faxon, but that's the way it goes. If so, I will replace it with something else.

Aaron, I'm watching this one closely. If it dies, Ima think twice before planting Y. faxon in my garden. You're my testing field

[TimMAz6]

nice link Barb.

-32F at Alamosa, San Luis Valley Regional Airport, Colorado........didn't know it got that cold there..........I bet the native Yuccas in that area are hardy.

[igor.glukhovtsev]

There are not many yucca options there, only glauca....I bet you have some

[TimMAz6]

Hi Igor,

I'm not sure but there may be some Y. harrimaniae native their too??

[igor.glukhovtsev]

Yucca angustissima too: http://www.swcoloradowildflowers.com/wh ... maniae.htm

[DesertZone]

Yucca angustissima too: http://www.swcoloradowildflowers.com/wh ... maniae.htm

The two up close look very different too me.
Y. harrimaniae looks very much like Yucca nana, I often think nana is just a smaller version?

Yucca angustissima var kanabensis (I think). Very hardy here in the west I have no dought it will look like new this spring.

[marceli]

Y. harrimaniae looks very much like Yucca nana, I often think nana is just a smaller version?

It is, I guess. Aren't these two 'related'? RPS sells Yucca harrimaniae (Nana).

[DesertZone]

Y. harrimaniae looks very much like Yucca nana, I often think nana is just a smaller version?

It is, I guess. Aren't these two 'related'? RPS sells Yucca harrimaniae (Nana).

I think so, too me they are the same plant.

[DesertZone]

nice link Barb.

-32F at Alamosa, San Luis Valley Regional Airport, Colorado........didn't know it got that cold there..........I bet the native Yuccas in that area are hardy.

The next on the list, was Ely NV. -22f, I have seen a j-tree growing wild just south of there on the county line! (White Pine/Lincoln County Line) But someone dug it up and stole it! Just may have been the farthest wild growing j-tree.

[DesertZone]

I may lose my biggest Y faxon,

Oh no.
I'd tear apart a cardboard box and wrap it around the trunk, tied with string.
And a blanket for a hat.

Barb

Thanks for the idea, but it is even hard to keep it covered with a blanket. I have many plants around it under the snow and I can't afford to step on them. Plus it is to big to cover every year. If it lives great, but if it dies than I will find another trial plant. I believe my garden is a study for plants. If they take to much effort to keep alive then I could not recomend them as a zone 6 plant, or good for colder gardens.
The hardier plants I find the more I can share with others in the area. I strive for truely hardy plants.
But I'm also not against keeping less cold hardy plants covered as long as it takes minimal effort. No heat/just plastic cover.

[lucky1]

can't afford to step on them

Good point, I hadn't thought of them.

But it'd kill me to see them suffer...probably just the Mother in me.

Barb

[DesertZone]

But it'd kill me to see them suffer...probably just the Mother in me.

Barb

It would bother me also, but they might be hardier than they look.

[lucky1]

But someone dug it up and stole it!

Aren't there laws about digging up stuff in the wild?
Too bad the idiot didn't get caught.

I always joke I'm going to take my shovel...
And if there are a zillion of something (like baby Fir trees in the woods), I'll dig those out.

Barb

[DesertZone]

But someone dug it up and stole it!

Aren't there laws about digging up stuff in the wild?
Too bad the idiot didn't get caught.

I always joke I'm going to take my shovel...
And if there are a zillion of something (like baby Fir trees in the woods), I'll dig those out.

Barb

So right Barb, there is laws. Even though there is permits for j-tree taking, that was not the area covered by the permits.

I've seen freshly bull dozed j-trees on county road right of ways tipped over in the sun, I so wanted to load my truck up, but without a permit no go! What a waste.

[DesertZone]

My new official low of 2013 -8F Somepeople had as cold as -20F

[lucky1]

freshly bull dozed j-trees on county road right of ways tipped over in the sun, I so wanted to load my truck up, but without a permit no go! What a waste.

The road contractors could've given them to you...just a matter of timing I guess.
So sad.

My new low is 2 mornings at -17C 1F

Barb

[DesertZone]

The road contractors could've given them to you...just a matter of timing I guess.
So sad.

Barb

I think they would not have cared at all, probably graded the road the week before I was there. The problem is...you can't haul around wild plants without the proper tags/paper work. Or I would have had some nice j-trees in my yard! Sad to think they are all dead now.

[RJ Tropic]

My backyard sensor recorded -25.2 C last night, -10 C in my magnolia enclosure.Brrrrrrrr........ Got to 0 C in my heated palm huts.

[seedscanada]

lowest temperature the same the past two nights: 2f or -16c. Coldest nights in two winters. Went down to -6c in my large enclosure... smaller ones were warmer.

[hardyjim]

Almost 23 months(Jan 26th will be 23 months) and counting without a sub-zero (F) temp.

We got down to 2F last winter and so far 1F at my house this year,
not hanging on by much but it is enough to keep the Bamboo green
and the shoots on the Butterfly bushes alive...winter isn't over yet though.

The issue is really the snow on the ground,we got 1/2" before this Arctic air hit
and that was enough to keep us almost tickling the zero degree (F) mark for a few nights.

[TimMAz6]

still zone 7b here.......low last night was +5.2F

Some wind helped........if it was calm it would have been lower.

[sidpook]

Been a bitter week here NJ style too. Although the snow is pretty for a change, it's already getting old. Our lake has not frozen in two years and it is frozen now. Our pond and waterfalls in the backyard are frozen solid. I know the fish will be ok, but I worry about the red eared slider turtles and frogs and toads. They havent been through a pond freeze yet.

Our lowest temp this year was on January 23, 2013, we reached 13 F (-10 C) at night with a high of 22F ( - 5 C) during the day. This is the first time in a decade we have had temps not getting out of the 20's F during the day for more than three days. That is not good! I hope all my stuff survives, don't know though. It has never been tested like this before. I know these temps are nothing for many of you, but they are a shock to NJ folks. At least the duration is. And the crazy thingis that we are back up to the 40's and 50's F in the seven day forecast. Roller coaster!!!

[hardyjim]

At least it warms back up and the cold doesn't last to long-I can live with that-

all part of a progressive pattern I guess,cold last night(9F) after a high in the low 40s yesterday...

Maybe near 60F by Mon or Tues with ice possible Sunday morning,then back to cold Wednesday
and some more 40s down the road-so not to ridiculous this winter yet....

[lucky1]

know the fish will be ok, but I worry about the red eared slider turtles and frogs and toads.

Wouldn't they just hunker down for a snooze in the mud at bottom as it freezes over?
Wildlife is pretty resilient.

In summer, I often hear the odd frog in my plant saucers on the patio, but seldom see him.
Have no idea where he over-winters, but my little pond is frozen all winter, every winter.
Even the big pond freezes solid.

Hope your plants can shrug off the cold, Mike.

Glad you're warming up again Jim...I'd give my best tooth for 60F right about now.

Barb

[sidpook]

know the fish will be ok, but I worry about the red eared slider turtles and frogs and toads.

Wouldn't they just hunker down for a snooze in the mud at bottom as it freezes over?
Wildlife is pretty resilient.

In summer, I often hear the odd frog in my plant saucers on the patio, but seldom see him.
Have no idea where he over-winters, but my little pond is frozen all winter, every winter.
Even the big pond freezes solid.

Hope your plants can shrug off the cold, Mike.

Glad you're warming up again Jim...I'd give my best tooth for 60F right about now.

Barb

27 here right now, opened my trachies and they look great! warm and toasty but not too hot. Bananas are too wrapped and covered to even think of looking at. barb, i think the frogs and turtles will do that, i hope.

[andym]

Really back into mild westerlies here max 57F today. Would have liked to be out in the garden but I've been hit by a particularly nasty cold bug courtesy of my dear wife. Turned into Bronchitus. Yuk

[sidpook]

Really back into mild westerlies here max 57F today. Would have liked to be out in the garden but I've been hit by a particularly nasty cold bug courtesy of my dear wife. Turned into Bronchitus. Yuk

I hear ya' I had the flu three weeks ago and now I have a head cold! Temps are nice though; 55 F today and 65 F tomorrow

[lucky1]

65 F tomorrow

Good grief...carwash weather!
And you could plant peas and lettuce and...

Enjoy it Tim

[sidpook]

65 F tomorrow

Good grief...carwash weather!
And you could plant peas and lettuce and...

Enjoy it Tim

I will indeed enjoy it Barb! Thanks!

[sidpook]

LOL just realized Barb, you called me Tim 3 times this week in my posts...Don't you like my name? Just kidding!