I'm glad you mentioned that, I'll need to cover the infamous (but now legal) strawberries at the farm.

My condolences to Mr Fox. Although we are lucky that we don't have to irrigate here, one of the downsides is fruit growers can't turn on the sprinklers when frost is predicted.

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WBIR ran a story tonight about Mr. Fox at the Fruit and Berry Patch and the possibility that he will lose close to $70K in the next few nights because of the cold weather. It's one thing for us to lose a few ornamentals or garden vegetables but quite another to see something like this happen to these good folks.

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Lantanas can take a lght frost, but then it looks like we could have a heavy frost so it's good you are covering them.

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Thanks Goose Creek. I've got sheets ready for the lantanas near the house (that I planted two weekends ago). What she planted were laurels, indian hawthorne and some perennials, at least I think they are perennials. I need to confirm what they are. Frankly, I don't know. I showed up and it was done. I have a call in. She does do very pretty work.

CBT, annuals will have to be covered, but if you had perennials installed the freeze shouldn't hurt. It might wilt the flowers, which is unfortunate, but on the bright side the plant's energy will go into getting established rather than seed production.

P.s. Established broccoli, cabbage, lettuce and spinach will do fine. The cold will impove the flavor.

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It will certainly freeze. I arrived home last night to find that my landscaper who's been scheduled to do some work at my house put all sorts of nice, new plants in the ground. Now, I have to figure out how to cover them Sat. night and hope for the best on the existing plants.

Also, temps are sure to turn cold for all those folks wearing new Easter outfits to church on Sunday morning. Makes for some cold arms and legs. It's been almost summer-like for the past few Sundays. Now Easter...go figure.

It seems the months have flipped this year. Jan was what I expect for Feb and vice versa. Likewise March was what I expect April to be. Very rarely do you see trees leaf out before April, for example.

So to my mind it maskes sense that April will be a bit on the chilly side.

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The old conventional wisdom was that the average late frost in TN was April 15. So this is sort of a return to normal.

I asked my brother for some pond plants last week and he said it was a couple weeks early. There could still be another hard frost. I asked at Lowe's this past weekend and they said it would be a week or two before they started selling pond plants. Sure enough, there's a reason - sometimes we have an April frost.

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Lows in the freezin range...Highs in the 50's...

Normal temps for the South in April. Well they were normal. Until those folks who get their science from a cartoon duck decided climate change was normal.

If you have a big enough tarp it's worth it to cover the plant. The ground will radiate heat for a few days since it's been so warm.

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based entirely on wishful thinking. The Weather.com forecast calls for Saturday lows of 24.

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I think yes and if it kills the blooms on my big beautiful pinkish white azalea I will be supremely pissed.

Darn! I have Northern company arriving tomorrow & all I've been doing is bragging about how warm it is here and how lovely the dogwoods look with all their snow white blossoms.

It's 69 degrees right now in Michigan. Tomorrow the high will be 37. Thursday high of 34 and Friday high of 31. And we're getting snow tomorrow, with accumulations of 1 to 2 inches. And you're worried about a little freeze...at night?