Here in the central Mediterranean (southern Adriatic islands) we also had a very unusual even over New Year. A strong Bura ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bora_(wind)/ ) combined with low temperatures after the winter solstice to create a week of night time frosts and three days of daytime temps below freezing. The air temperature was a minimum of -5ºC, but the wind chill took it down much lower. All my bulbs are in the ground but most Calla lillies were killed, also dragon arum, Dracunculus vulgaris and some gladiolus. My agaves, mango, avocado and banana froze to death. The unusual facet has been the damage to the citrus trees. Most mature citrus have been killed. I lost 70% of my citrus orchard trees, but it has affected the palms, Norfolk Island pines and many above and below ground species because the ground froze as well as the air. NW ᐧ On 4 May 2017 at 18:19, Cynthia Mueller <cynthiasbulbs@hotmail.com> wrote: > This winter was relatively mild in Central Texas - above 28F or so except > for one period of three days and nights below 20F. This sudden change in > temperature from 50/60F killed inhabitants of 30 or 35 pots (terra cotta > and plastic), buckets and tubs of both seedlings and well established > bulbs, including rain lilies, sprekelia, hymenocallis, hippeastrum. > Seedlings included pots of gladiolus youngsters, crinum eucharidifolia, > lycoris, more rare sorts of rhodophiala, all smaller bulbs of z > grandiflora, all katherina both yellow and red, lindleyana, entire large > tubs of 'Aquarius' which never sets seeds for me, etc. What may have been > the cause of much of this damage, besides such sudden temperature change, > might have been the unusual condition of having daytime freezing > temperatures for these three days. This would have been quite uncommon. > Potted calla lilies and those with their pots still in water did not die, > which surprised me. The ground probably did not freeze so no bul > bs there were affected. I was surprised that the "trunk" of my crinum > asiaticum and a few of its hybrids came through unscathed. And of course > the crinum bulbispermum kept all their leaves intact and were still ready > for anything. Other staples of gardens in this area such as ornamental > spineless opuntias and many agaves froze, as well. > > Cynthia W Mueller > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@mailman1.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > -- This week's "*Life in a Dol house*" Blog: *https://goo.gl/D0P8Iu/ <https://goo.gl/D0P8Iu/>* The natural year in Dol: : *https://goo.gl/8TxpSs/ <https://goo.gl/8TxpSs/>* The weather today in* Dol *: *https://goo.gl/3aRJ2c/ <https://goo.gl/3aRJ2c/>* _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@mailman1.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/