While we were in Egypt back in January, Florida had VERY unseasonably cold weather – the coldest for 15 years or more, with overnight temperatures well below freezing. We knew about because friends told us, and also because I got thermostat alerts that the house was tool cold even with heat running!
When we got back, I took some photos in the back garden; most plants looked very dead. This is already more than two weeks since, which explains the few new green leaves …
We decided to wait a month and see if anything could recover, but more recently Margaret has started cutting down and clearing dead plants. However there’s a few little green shoots on some – and on those we have cut down to just above that new growth:
The big Prickly Pear Cactus in the back showed signs of freeze damage on the tops of some “Nopales” (leaves?) but recently it’s been growing loads:
Hopefully by mid summer there will be lots more new growth.
M&I / GBMINI 