worried

just heard there may be a frost got morning glory musa basjoo pennisetum rubrum and 15 tubs and nowhere to put them should of planned earlier fingers crossed ps i love autumn

 

The best thing you can do as a temp measure is pull them close to the house. The wall acts as a kind of storage radiator and will be a few degrees warmer than elswhere.

I saw the forecast too and didn't get the impression it was going to be a very hard frost even up here!

 

just been out to check no frost my day will be spent sorting them out thankyou for reply would hate to lose any but no doubt it will happen this container thread is very good will be interesting to see problems and successes people have in different parts of the country :D :D

 

I do exactly as michaelmasdaisy does and extra covering if hard frost is expected. I have a very large cacti surviving in tub outside my patio doors south facing. no frost here yet. very dry summer and still very mild at night. last winter my lowest temp was -3c.

 

I was out checking at 3-4 am and we definitely had frost!
Reason I was out was because some little so and so's nicked my car yesterday evening and I didn't discover it till 2.30am when I was going to bed! So 3am I was out showing the nice policeman how they'd come in to the house to help themselves to the keys, closed the doors behind them, opened my gates and driven off with my pride and joy!!
Guess what I was doing all day today!

 

so sorry to hear about that people like that should be sprayed with insecticide bloody parasites hope you get your car back i think that is the reason ilike plants and wildlife so much

 

What a terrible thing to happen :( :( especially when you had spent the day polishing it. Do let us know if you get it back. I had the same experience, only they left my car keys and took my handbag, credit cards, money, address book etc. Caught burglar 1 week later, but never got anything back.

 

One evening about six years ago I was in the garden and caught a git trying to get into my shed,in panic he threw a brick which split my brow.It wasn't the four stitches that hurt in A&E, it was having two knuckle joints realigned!

 

Nice one Paladin - I trust that you were not charged with GBH

Jo - I would wish your pride and joy back unscathed, and the perpetrators ---- mmmmmmm I recall a curse and then thought twould be a bit strong for those here - so will think it rather than print it :D

 

No Fran, in fact the local bobbie let me keep the gold chain he found next day in the hedge (off property)where I had left the chap to "sleep"

 

wellm done paladin

 

update on car: found 9am Saturday but before the police could get to it the local yobbery had torched it!

Ah well, guess that's life!! (or no! )

 

"B******S"...C'mon Fran,invoke that incantation!

 

just hope you get nice payout and buy another pride and joy and fran i would love to hear the curse