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  1. Dan Stanhope

    Purple stain?

    Thanks everyone. I had never seen anything like this before. The first thing I will do is isolate it, since it is currently sitting right between a young Majesticum and a young Johanna Coppinger. Fortunately neither of them shows any of this. I now know what I need to read up on and I'm glad to...
  2. Dan Stanhope

    Purple stain?

    It's been a while since I've posted here. This was a year of recovery after the 28 deg. winter temps. This year I concentrated on potted plants by the pool that can be brought in during winter. In looking at them this morning I brushed up against a plant purchased from HI this summer as...
  3. Dan Stanhope

    Tampa Croton Farm

    All of us in the Bay area join you in hoping for a mild winter. We are in the Eastlake area and saw 28 deg. last year, which caused a lot of leaf drop from the established crotons and was harder on the newly planted ones. However, even a young uncovered Macarthur Complex survived...barely. I...
  4. Dan Stanhope

    The cold snap.

    Yes, I was up at my usual 3 am and watched the temps constantly. We hit 29 around 4 am and stayed there until just after 8. It is finally all the way up to 31 at 8:45! The worst part is they are now forecasting another dip to 32 tomorrow morning. Later I'll head out to look at stuff in the yard...
  5. Dan Stanhope

    The cold snap.

    Well our forecast is for a low of 29 and 6 hours at or below 32. I've got some younger plants wrapped and everything from the patio indoors. We'll just have to see what happens. I hope your beautiful gardens fare well. Where is that darned Global Warming when you need it!
  6. Dan Stanhope

    The cold snap.

    Pix, thanks for the link to the older discussion. It clearly shows there is no one answer and has helped me think about more factors on a plant by plant basis. Karl & Phil, I am always envious of those just a few degrees warmer! I do have several old sheets and some good metal stakes that I...
  7. Dan Stanhope

    The cold snap.

    I had recently read this thread called Cold Snap when I looked at our forecast for this week (for Eastlake in N. Pinellas County.) Like Karl, we had had one time where it reached 32 briefly but had no freeze. It took out my graptophyllums but everything else looked OK. But now the forecast...
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