A friend called this afternoon wondering if she should pick all her daffodils, hyacinths, and tulips.
My advice? I told her that it wasn’t going to be cold enough for a hard freeze so they should weather tonight’s colder temperatures.
Then she asked what did a hard freeze mean. I explained that it would have to be below freezing. Since the ground is so warm from our summer temperatures, the plants should be fine.
Of course, since I am a retired reference librarian, I had to see if there was a quantitative definition of a hard freeze.
The American Meteorology Association’s defines it as “a freeze in which seasonal vegetation is destroyed, the ground surface is frozen solid underfoot, and heavy ice is formed on small water surfaces such as puddles and water containers.”
It sounds as if all the spring flowers will survive.
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