Chris
Posted by
hanna on 1/11/2010, 11:33 pm
Chris believe it or not the former owner of my house left a bird of paradise in a pot in my back yard. So far it has survived 5 yrs without help. I can assure you it is due to its location, I have yet to check on it since the hard freezes. If it survives it is yours. Regarding your other plants if they don't make you might be able to get some clippings from friends and neighbors if theirs survive. My neighbor gave me a piece of a plumeria (it may stay in a pot) it's in the house along with some baby crepe myrtles I plan to plant in the spring. Thanks for the pix and info.
You said "And it might have also driven the citrus industry even further south in the state. I think I heard that somewhere." I found this:
Winter vegetable and citrus farmers in the northern and central part of the state, however, still had to fear the occasional winter cold snap that was cold enough and long enough to ruin crops. For the past 150 years, the citrus industry, first established in the less disease-prone soils of northern Florida, has progressively moved southward to escape tree-killing freezes. A major southward migration shifted production into central Florida in the early 1900s, and production flourished. But several catastrophic freezes there in the 1980s drove many citrus farms even farther south, in particular to the southwest of Lake Okeechobee.
And then in 1997 came an overnight freeze that dipped down to citrus and vegetable farms in locations farther south than Lake Okeechobee. Was the occurrence of such a devastating freeze event so far south simply a random "blip" in Florida's climate history? Was it just a coincidence that as the citrus farms moved south over the past century, the winter freezes they were trying to escape seemed to be right on their heels?
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/DeepFreeze/deep_freeze4.php
The industry has had its problems this yr and may head farther south yet again. I found thes current articles.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60913020100111
http://www.wifr.com/weather/headlines/80676927.html
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