Growing Trees and Shrubs in your climate zone

[Barbara]

Oh, importantly, those of us who live in sub-tropical Los Angeles (agricultural zone 11), have noticed that our fruit bearing trees did not blossom this February. Instead, they have just started blossoming in mid-June. Reason -- we had an unusually cold winter, and it appears as if the Weather Channel is not telling us the truth. We lost several trees due to the cold freeze. If we had had a truthful warning by the Weather Channel, perhaps by placing tarps and buckets of water around those more tropical trees, we could have saved them from the cold freeze.

Sorry to hear about your trees, Maria. What type were they ? And how would buckets of water have helped, except to weigh down the tarps - ?
I didn't know it was so cold this year in L.A. That's quite something if trees froze last winter and then failed to bloom in Feb. as they should have, apparently, for your Zone 11 [ ! ]. We could maybe move this to the tree thread, which I intend to return to.
But too about the volcanic activity, I didn't connect that with a worldwide cool off.

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Maria
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[Maria]

Oh, importantly, those of us who live in sub-tropical Los Angeles (agricultural zone 11), have noticed that our fruit bearing trees did not blossom this February. Instead, they have just started blossoming in mid-June. Reason -- we had an unusually cold winter, and it appears as if the Weather Channel is not telling us the truth. We lost several trees due to the cold freeze. If we had had a truthful warning by the Weather Channel, perhaps by placing tarps and buckets of water around those more tropical trees, we could have saved them from the cold freeze.

Sorry to hear about your trees, Maria. What type were they ? And how would buckets of water have helped, except to weigh down the tarps - ?
I didn't know it was so cold this year in L.A. That's quite something if trees froze last winter and then failed to bloom in Feb. as they should have, apparently, for your Zone 11 [ ! ]. We could maybe move this to the tree thread, which I intend to return to.
But too about the volcanic activity, I didn't connect that with a worldwide cool off.

This post has been moved from As the Sun Turns to Growing Trees
Maria
Admin.

A worldwide cool off (aka, mini ice age) will affect our ability to grow crops as certain plants especially tropical plants are more susceptible to frost and freezes.