Living in the south sucks!

TooCoys

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Seriously. You northern folks have all the good conifers.

Everything that I like says "zones XX through 8, but will struggle below zone 6." REALLY?

Aside from Bald Cypress, a few pines, and some junipers... there really ain't much evergreen stuff down here is there?
 
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TooCoys

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That's it though. No firs, no spruces, no redwoods, no fun stuff.
 

TooCoys

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I enjoy it here.
You got to like cold though.
Month of unrelenting cold on end.

I'm from Louisiana, the part that's south of I-10... I dont do cold. I couldn't even stand the cold and once a year snow that we got when I lived in Dallas for 12 years.
 

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ahh the good old days :)
They will be back soon enough.
Not a month but months.
I dont even see my trees for a few of them once it starts snowing.
Our winters are getting milder though thanks to global warming.
A couple years at this rate and I might be approaching zone 5 temps.
 

JoeH

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They will be back soon enough.
Not a month but months.
I dont even see my trees for a few of them once it starts snowing.
Our winters are getting milder though thanks to global warming.
A couple years at this rate and I might be approaching zone 5 temps.
I loved shoveling snow
 

M. Frary

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I loved shoveling snow
It's fun the first time or maybe two.
And when it is a foot or more deep overnight it's a real pain.
I got tired of it last year so I just packed it down with my truck so the wife could get her car out. Worked well until it started to get warm. Then all of that packed snow turned to ice.
 

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bahh, still have to lug them in for freezes

One has to embrace what is do them...my friend lives in Florida. Big bougainvillea not little things under a grow art at night. She has a cart she sets her less hardy trees on, leaving everything on it and wheeling it indoors...covers others with some horticultural cloth and sets a heat lamp in with them. Also a quick greenhouse she sets up for extreme temps...but tears it down for good months at a time. The freezes you have are nothing like the cold we see up north for the length we see it. I assume those dear to her heart are brought inside or are very tender plants.
 

JoeH

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this year sucked I just tossed them all in the shed. Even killed a couple loropetulums that I thought would be fine. All I had then were Rubber Tree and Scheffs now I have bougies too.
 
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