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Originally Posted by Twolunger
What a scary thought. We moved to Florida for this? How will the bamboo hold up to a freeze?
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The running type bamboo handles cold really well. It's considered a temperate climate plant. Some of the clumping types I have, not so well. But surprisingly over the last few Winters, it hasn't gotten kicked back at all. I bought some really large stuff from a guy near Tampa years ago that got kicked back every Winter for years after Connie and I planted it. So I figured it was going to just be a perennial, coming back each Spring. So it is actually getting some larger sized culms lately, since it doesn't have to regrow everything every year.
I walked down to my largest bamboo grove this evening to dump some compost and noticed that the peach trees think it is Spring time as well.
Last couple of years we would have the citrus trees blooming like crazy only to get knocked back with a late freeze. But even so, Connie still has more Meyer lemons then she knows what to do with. And we aren't going to be able to finish off all the tangerines before they get past their prime. She only got three of her pomelos this year. They are the HUGE grapefruits she is growing. So this must have been an off year for them. That tree is protected pretty well between the old snake building and mouse building. And a dancy tangerine growing on the north side of it boxes it in pretty well.
They are ratcheting up the forecast low on Tuesday night, so hopefully the forecasters are fine tuning their wild guesses yet again. I suppose they have figured out that if they forecast some outrageous forecast several days in advance, they get a lot more traffic from people checking on it. They need a busy season to sell advertising outside of the hurricane season, I guess.
Damn shame to see "fake news" taking hold in the weather news too.