Hope the east coast likes snow!!!!!!!!!!

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Fri Oct 28, 2011 5:59 pm

Snow before halloween in the north east??

http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather- ... 2011-10-26

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Fri Oct 28, 2011 6:18 pm

Past few nights have been in the low 20's f here, but I would take that over snow any day of the week.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Fri Oct 28, 2011 9:09 pm

OMG (to our friends in Boston and Jersey, etc.)

Fortunately only a 1 day snowstorm.

We'll soon beat 'em with 3 months of it.

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Sat Oct 29, 2011 6:17 am

lucky1 wrote:OMG (to our friends in Boston and Jersey, etc.)

Fortunately only a 1 day snowstorm.

We'll soon beat 'em with 3 months of it.

UGH, so not ready for this!!!!!! We havent even lost leaves yet!!!!

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Sat Oct 29, 2011 8:58 am

sidpook wrote:
lucky1 wrote:OMG (to our friends in Boston and Jersey, etc.)

Fortunately only a 1 day snowstorm.

We'll soon beat 'em with 3 months of it.
UGH, so not ready for this!!!!!! We havent even lost leaves yet!!!!

Thats always the story here too... cept the leaves are usually gone... I bet everything will be fine. IF you have bamboo, bend it to the ground, theyre calling for "heavy wet" snow

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Sat Oct 29, 2011 9:22 am

canadianplant wrote:
sidpook wrote:
lucky1 wrote:OMG (to our friends in Boston and Jersey, etc.)

Fortunately only a 1 day snowstorm.

We'll soon beat 'em with 3 months of it.
UGH, so not ready for this!!!!!! We havent even lost leaves yet!!!!
Thats always the story here too... cept the leaves are usually gone... I bet everything will be fine. IF you have bamboo, bend it to the ground, theyre calling for "heavy wet" snow

I do have bamboo, but down here in SOuth jersey, it is mainly rain and freezing and I mean FREEZING Flippin' rain.....no real accumulation, although the snow and ice do look quite odd on my cannas and musas....Amazing!!!

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Sat Oct 29, 2011 9:22 am

sidpook wrote:
canadianplant wrote:
sidpook wrote: UGH, so not ready for this!!!!!! We havent even lost leaves yet!!!!
Thats always the story here too... cept the leaves are usually gone... I bet everything will be fine. IF you have bamboo, bend it to the ground, theyre calling for "heavy wet" snow
I do have bamboo, but down here in SOuth jersey, it is mainly rain and freezing and I mean FREEZING Flippin' rain.....no real accumulation, although the snow and ice do look quite odd on my cannas and musas....Amazing!!!

ID take some pics... probably the last time youll see the canna/bananas this year

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Sat Oct 29, 2011 9:45 am

canadianplant wrote:
sidpook wrote:
canadianplant wrote: Thats always the story here too... cept the leaves are usually gone... I bet everything will be fine. IF you have bamboo, bend it to the ground, theyre calling for "heavy wet" snow
I do have bamboo, but down here in SOuth jersey, it is mainly rain and freezing and I mean FREEZING Flippin' rain.....no real accumulation, although the snow and ice do look quite odd on my cannas and musas....Amazing!!!
ID take some pics... probably the last time youll see the canna/bananas this year

Here are a few pics so far this week and then this morning.....What a difference a few days makes!

trachy leaf

plumeria leaf

5 ft tall musas out front

small green cannas out fornt

larger musas out back (3rd year in ground) taken earlier this week

blooming camelias taken this week...they're amazing and huge now, almost up to 2nd floor.

smaller bananas out front taken earlier this week....

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Sat Oct 29, 2011 10:48 am

Snow on a Plumeria leaf? Never seen that before. Can't be good, right?

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Sat Oct 29, 2011 1:18 pm

TerdalFarm wrote:Snow on a Plumeria leaf? Never seen that before. Can't be good, right?

It's all good......It's South jersey variety: friggin' tough!

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sat Oct 29, 2011 7:27 pm

Snow on a Plumeria leaf? Never seen that before. Can't be good, right?

You took the words out of my mouth Erik.
Mike, are you saying that plumeria stays out winter, or is it in a pot?

The last three shots are gorgeous, have never seen a camellia that tall, and look at those nanners!

Come back, summmer!!!!!

Careful jogging on that slippery stuff.
Crappy horrible ugly awful stuff.

Barb

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 5:36 am

The plumeria does come in eventually...It can take a few freezes I think. Then I put it in a dark basement and let the elaves all drop off. I remember my friends in Fort Lauderdale have a huge one outside, and last December it froze and lost all the leaves in the long cold spell there, came back just fine. The camelias are amazing aren't they. They are soooo big. I basically forget about them as they are planted on the sid eof the house where I never usually go. I'll post another pic to show how big they have grown in the past five years.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 8:05 am

Yes please, more pics.

Mike!!!! Just saw your weather on TV.

Brutal conditions there right now.
Take care.

Barb

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 8:32 am

lucky1 wrote:Yes please, more pics.

Mike!!!! Just saw your weather on TV.
Brutal conditions there right now.
Take care.

Barb

It's actually pretty nice here right now: sunny, 46 and windy, chilly for this time of year but nice

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 1:53 pm

Glad the worst of it missed you.

Barb

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 2:04 pm

lucky1 wrote:Glad the worst of it missed you.

Barb

Yeah, we are south and east of the city only 50 ,miles from coast, ocean temps are still in 60's so we were spared the snow, just got a lot of wind and rain...

Cameron_z6a_N.S. · Post by **Cameron_z6a_N.S.** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 2:32 pm

I hope everyone in the NE is doing OK. I saw that places in NJ had 19", and parts of MA had 26". The tree breakage also seems to be especially bad. Luckily, all of this weather is coming down as rain in my area. However, there are 100 km/h winds, and some flooded areas. Normally NS would be receiving this as snow too!!

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 2:46 pm

MA had 26" ??? Oh oh, Bill's GH!!!!!!

Cameron, saw that you folks have had 3 times your normal October rainfall.

Barb

Cameron_z6a_N.S. · Post by **Cameron_z6a_N.S.** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 3:08 pm

Barb, after living in NS for 10 years, the constant grey skies and rain has started to seem "normal"

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 3:11 pm

Cameron_z6a_N.S. wrote:Barb, after living in NS for 10 years, the constant grey skies and rain has started to seem "normal"

I would go mad: I hate grey skies!!!!!!!

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 4:50 pm

Snow....LOL......we only got 2" here in the Massachusetts 'tropics'. Thanks to the 'warm' ocean temps the rain/snow mix did not turn to real snow until the end. Banana leaves are still green! Low of 29F.
<img src=http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c309/ ... oct302.jpg>

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 5:58 pm

Wow tim your pool isnt even frozen

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Mon Oct 31, 2011 7:58 am

lucky1 wrote:MA had 26" ??? Oh oh, Bill's GH!!!!!!

Cameron, saw that you folks have had 3 times your normal October rainfall.

Barb

I think Bill only got a few inches tops-

Cameron_z6a_N.S. · Post by **Cameron_z6a_N.S.** » Mon Oct 31, 2011 11:15 am

That's good to hear! It seems as if only isolated parts of western MA received record snowfalls.

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Mon Oct 31, 2011 11:17 am

Yes, Bill lives a few miles up the road from me. If I got 2" then Bill got 2.1".

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Mon Oct 31, 2011 4:00 pm

MA Tropics!

Glad the big whallop missed Bill's place too

Great pic Tim, man, those are gorgeous yuccas.

Barb

CTPalm · Post by **CTPalm** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 8:17 pm

Just got our power back on today after losing it last Saturday! Got about a foot of snow then - ruined almost every tree. I got almost all the palms and bananas in that day. Crazy, crazy weather!!! Worst Storm Ever. Still most people have no power!

Paul

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 8:39 pm

Paul, that freak storm must've been awful.
Glad you're OK.

Sad that trees are ruined, good that you got all the palms and nanas in.

I can imagine what your freezer contents look like...eeeeuuuuwwww!

Barb

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Sat Nov 05, 2011 5:37 am

That sucks , sorry paul!

CTPalm · Post by **CTPalm** » Sat Nov 05, 2011 8:53 pm

Thanks Barb and Mike. I never lost power for a week before! Worst winter storm ever in October. . . a few Pics:

Just starting:
http://postimage.org/image/jcy3zngpj/[img]
http://postimage.org/image/6eu3y74iz/
Next Morning:
http://postimage.org/image/z5kox5a3b/[img]
Today:
http://postimage.org/image/iw4653v4n/

It's going to warm up next week! Was hoping for Fall before winter anyway!

Paul

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Sun Nov 06, 2011 9:04 am

For some reason Banana plants don't like snow

Good thing is,it goes away quick this time of year!

Cameron_z6a_N.S. · Post by **Cameron_z6a_N.S.** » Sun Nov 06, 2011 11:27 am

I thought it would have all been melted by now!