Frost damage on various exotics.

[Yorkshire Kris]

This album shows what a little frost can do to tender foliage and some surprises....

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 466&type=1

[Steph]

Mine haven't been touched yet... the London effect.
I'll no doubt be howling soon enough.

[otorongo]

This album shows what a little frost can do to tender foliage and some surprises....

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 466&type=1

Why was the NE facing T-rex untouched while the South facing fried?

Mine haven't been touched yet... the London effect.

I reckon I'm more central than you and my brug leaves got zapped, so it must be different plants we're talking about or you have yours next to walls?

[Yorkshire Kris]

Mine haven't been touched yet... the London effect.
I'll no doubt be howling soon enough.

It's not been cold at all here it more to do with exposure and positioning of plants as the T rex demonstrates. One is pristine wherea the other is toasted!

[Yorkshire Kris]

YOU CAN STILL CLICK ON THE LINK and it wont make you sign up to Facebook.

He is what Facebook look like...

[GoggleboxUK]

You'll scare them Kris, one sight of Facebook and they'll think they'll be turned into hoody wearing text-speaking, X Factor watching zombies!

[Yorkshire Kris]

You'll scare them Kris, one sight of Facebook and they'll think they'll be turned into hoody wearing text-speaking, X Factor watching zombies!

It just makes it easier uploading and view on facebook... Anyway here are two of the photos to show how positioning plants in the garden can make a HUGE difference.


Both these are the T rex and both genetically identical. Both are growing within 12ft of each other but one is facing NE and the frazzled one facing South.

[Panama Pete]

My ricinus havnt been toasted yet. How much can they take at zero celcious?

[redsquirrel]

You'll scare them Kris, one sight of Facebook and they'll think they'll be turned into hoody wearing text-speaking, X Factor watching zombies!

sorry goggs but if you dont like it, you dont like it.i dont and wont,too much friggin hassle for pc illiterates like me

[Axel]

This album shows what a little frost can do to tender foliage and some surprises....

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 466&type=1

Why was the NE facing T-rex untouched while the South facing fried?

Mine haven't been touched yet... the London effect.

I reckon I'm more central than you and my brug leaves got zapped, so it must be different plants we're talking about or you have yours next to walls?

London is early having their first frost already. My planted brugmansia sanguinea is still covered with about 20 flowers.

[fern Rob]

My Dicksonia antarctica have lost some colour out of there fronds.

[otorongo]

London is early having their first frost already. My planted brugmansia sanguinea is still covered with about 20 flowers.

Sanguinea is a cold brug, it's hardier and likes cool weather.
Mine never flowered this year, but it's in lush leaf and looking good.

It's the suaveolens out in the open that fried.

[otorongo]

Also my canna blackened, but the tobacco is still green.

The zapped brug leaves have curled up and dried a bit now, I think I'll prune the plants a bit to make them more compact and easier to fleece. The taller one is like 8ft tall, I had to use a bamboo stake to fleece the topmost parts.

[GREVILLE]

Dahlias fried by -0.5c but the geraniums in contact with them untouched. Pink China is like yours, Kris, but an esculenta two feet further back in the border and just under a deciduous overhead canopy escaped. All the brugs are against walls including the still flowering sanguinea have all escaped as has a potted burgundy stem.

[Dave Brown]

Brug covered with fleece was toasted but Dahlia After 8 below was fine

Fleeced Brug

Fried Brug