BY SKEETER
The recent Freeze damaged the long hedge we have here in my GEORGIA GARDENS. The weather sure has been strange. Mild Winter temps brought everything out a month ahead of schedule. Then a hard freeze damaged most everything. Then on Tuesday, we had a record high temp of 91. Yes, that is not a typo but 91 degrees! It is just plan crazy weather.
In the 16 years we have called this place home, we have never had damage to the new growth on the hedge. I am sure the hedge will bounce back in a week or two as it has flourished even after several inches of ice in the past. But so sad for me now to see the HEDGE ROW DAMAGE, In the Garden...
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Oh this kind of damage is done here many years. It is saddening. Our poor magnolia didn't even have one bloom on it this year. It was full of buds about to open and then we were frozen for a couple of days. Now our poor tree looks like it is covered in used teabags. UGH... Like you say it has been crazy. I feel your pain.
ReplyDeleteWow! You've been pretty lucky for it to not get damaged like this before. Up here the weather is so fickle it happens a lot. It will bounce back no problem. For now it looks like a variegated hedge! :)
ReplyDeleteLooks like box blight to me... bad news. xxx Matron
ReplyDeleteNot quite as extreme but we've had early spring followed by freezing weather and damage as well here in southeaster Minnesota. Yuk!!!
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