![]() We had a few hours around 27F, and I heard some in west Broward had the same! That was one bad night. Yep - there's a name for "positive thinking" - it's called Tempting Fate.Įric - the freeze you mentioned, the one at the end of January - that's the freeze I was talking about. There's no room for positive thinking in this type of twisted logic. If I keep saying this will be the winter to end all winters, then perhaps it will not come true. Let's see, when do I make my first winter trip to Fairchild? Thank goodness for those cheap Southwest non-stops from New Orleans to Lauderdale on Friday nights.Ĭome on y'all. (Did I say onset? At this point I can hardly believe that winter is still weeks away.) I already am suffering from my second cold of the season and it's still autumn, and three (more) months of depression await as I try again to learn to love Camellias.these Arctic winters are not suitable for weak-genetic southern California boys like me. But there are more Bismarckias at Home Depots everywhere and I just chant that mantra when I find myself in a downward spiral dreading the onset of winter. ![]() and appreciate that they are the mostly hardy backbone along with lots of dieback herbaceous tropicals.and that my beautiful Bismarckia, which has survived three years now and looks wonderful despite repeated insults down to 23F and many hours below freezing, one day will do that 'Adonidia' thing in a below-average winter. ![]() I love my Sabals, Rhapis, Chamaedorea radicalis, Livistona chinensis and saribus, Phoenix sylvestris, etc. Eric, your logic of "annuals that get lucky" is a great and very Zen-like one.I have to keep that in mind constantly here in this southern REFRIGERATOR I moved to four years ago from frost-free Los Angeles.oh well. ![]()
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