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Kev Spence
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Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:59 pm Posts: 10902 Location: Loughborough, Leics, central UK
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How are your temps looking
We have just had a few "cold" nights of -3.3c and -3.1c so no more pictures of my green Cyathea cooperi this year. S.macrophylla has all its older leaves toasted already. How are other areas looking around the globe?
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Stan
Joined: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:52 pm Posts: 10687 Location: Hayward- S.F. Bay area Ca.
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Re: How are your temps looking
Eyes will roll ...but, The longest range predictions to mid December are for nothing below 40f. IF that hold up,we might have a frost free winter. So far 42F (5C) has been our coldest night in yet another unpredictable season. I am in awe and wonder of Mother Nature and how..the averages seem to hold up pretty much every year,yet there seems this infinite variation every winter since I began paying attention to our weather. This winter,its lots of rain ..and above average nights. Above average nights seems to be the trend all year..even if days are not that much different.
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Wed Nov 30, 2016 10:59 pm |
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SilverShaded
Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2016 7:37 pm Posts: 60 Location: Cheshire UK
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Re: How are your temps looking
Also two nights of -3C here. Brought my Coelogyne cristata in, seems ok but I lost my nerve.
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Wed Nov 30, 2016 11:12 pm |
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David Matzdorf
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Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:06 pm Posts: 5321 Location: Islington, London UK
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Re: How are your temps looking
We had 12 hours of frost last night, down to -3ºC, after a harmless 0ºC the night before. Now there's no frost in the forecast for at least 10 days.
So this single night of prolonged hard frost was extremely inconvenient, because I had to haul in about 30 plants that would at least have been damaged, but now I really ought to put two thirds of them out again. The Brugmansias will have to stay inside, because I've pulled up the plunged pots and then pruned them back to get them through the door.
Hedychium gardnerianum, two species of Banana and an Aloe (Kumara) plicatilis that I can't move, because it's top-heavy and falls out of its pot every time I try, all weathered last night with sheets or blankets draped over them.
It was the duration of the cold, as much as the lowest temperature, that concerned me. We've had 2 or 3 degrees of transient frost a few times over the past several winters, but only for a few hours at a time.
Everything else, including the whole green roof, fends for itself. I don't do winter-long protection.
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Thu Dec 01, 2016 1:19 am |
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Andy Martin
Joined: Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:58 pm Posts: 1279 Location: Oxford UK
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Re: How are your temps looking
Your a lucky man Kev living in sub tropical Loughborough I've had a -5C Tuesday morning, -7C wednesday morning and as I write now another -5C. Yuck!! Daphniphyllum Pentandrum didn't like -7C
_________________ Lover of Yuccas,Palms,Nolinas,Schefflera.
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Thu Dec 01, 2016 1:41 am |
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AlexW
Joined: Wed Jun 16, 2010 7:39 pm Posts: 95 Location: Reading UK
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Re: How are your temps looking
My nearest weatherstation read the same lows as Andy, with only 4 hours above freezing yesterday. We probably didn't get it quite that bad as we're slightly uphill from that station which lies at the bottom of a valley. On the other hand I get no sun here until late January so the frost tends to remain a long while.
No obvious damage yet other than a couple of ridiculous experiments. Was a bit worried that Schefflera kornasii would struggle as it had a very late flush this year. This cold so early in winter doesn't bode well though!
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Thu Dec 01, 2016 7:30 am |
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BenC
Joined: Fri Dec 04, 2009 3:23 pm Posts: 298 Location: East Devon, UK
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Re: How are your temps looking
We've had severe frosts here for the past 3 nights. Last night the thermometer read -4 right up by the house wall, so it will have been colder further out in the garden. Frost has remained in the shade since Tuesday morning despite daytime temperatures of around 3 or 4 degrees. I've opened the curtains this morning to freezing fog. All pots are frozen solid. I hate this weather!
This week is actually the worst spell of cold that we've had here for a number of years - I would normally expect just a scattered couple of nights of -4 or so all winter.
I expect most of the plants will be ok, but I already know I have lost some things from frozen pots. It is forecast to become milder from Friday thankfully.
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Thu Dec 01, 2016 8:07 am |
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Steven
Joined: Sun Aug 10, 2008 4:02 pm Posts: 2486
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Re: How are your temps looking
Same as here, two night frosts (the first of the year) with temps down to -3°C to -4°C (the latter in the coldest part of the garden). The upper leaves of my Tetrapanax are now toast, as are all the open flowers of my autumn Camellias. Maybe at least the closed buds survived. The Mahonias are in full glory though - x media, x savilliana and some late flowers of 'Cabaret' and 'Soft Caress' - as well as Arbutus unedo 'Compacta'. No more frosts in sight!
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Thu Dec 01, 2016 9:49 am |
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karl66
Joined: Wed May 27, 2015 6:09 pm Posts: 284 Location: halesowen.west midlands UK
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Re: How are your temps looking
We had -4 Tuesday & -5 Wednesday evening although only for around 6 hour's....dicksonia fronds are mostly toasted,the small amount of potted palms are froze solid in pots . supposedly warming up here now until late sunday evening.
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Thu Dec 01, 2016 5:26 pm |
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Kev Spence
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Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:59 pm Posts: 10902 Location: Loughborough, Leics, central UK
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Re: How are your temps looking
Blimey guys looks like the south of the UK went colder for a 3rd night then our low for Weds night was +4.8c how weird! 5.48 p.m and its 8.2c it feels positively balmy outside but the smell of dead Hedychium leaves tells a story. I wonder how my Dioon spinulosum is doing.
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Thu Dec 01, 2016 5:55 pm |
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jimbo
Joined: Wed Nov 23, 2016 10:04 pm Posts: 10 Location: west midlands UK
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Re: How are your temps looking
only -0.8 last night but still frost better than previous 2 nights of -3 and -3.3 with heavier frosts fortunately been warming during day even had sunny spell today
_________________ Regards Jimbo
Life is better in the garden
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Thu Dec 01, 2016 7:19 pm |
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stephenprudence
Joined: Fri Aug 01, 2008 8:33 pm Posts: 342 Location: Heswall, Wirral, UK (Zone 9a)
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Re: How are your temps looking
Lowest and only air frost up to this point was a -0.6C
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Thu Dec 01, 2016 8:25 pm |
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SilverShaded
Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2016 7:37 pm Posts: 60 Location: Cheshire UK
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Re: How are your temps looking
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Thu Dec 01, 2016 9:23 pm |
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stephenprudence
Joined: Fri Aug 01, 2008 8:33 pm Posts: 342 Location: Heswall, Wirral, UK (Zone 9a)
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Re: How are your temps looking
I didn't know it was grown around here.. did you catch where abouts in the area it was being grown?
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Fri Dec 02, 2016 11:05 am |
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John P
Joined: Sun Dec 02, 2007 7:41 pm Posts: 445 Location: Tring Hertfordshire UK
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Re: How are your temps looking
I had one night of -6c and the BBC then forecast cloud cover the following night with temperatures above freezing but they messed up again and it was about -5C.
My new thermostatically controlled gas heater would not light and the back up new paraffin heater cap snapped off.
John
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Fri Dec 02, 2016 5:35 pm |
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