Sommer Gardens / Friday, February 6, 2009 / Categories: Brugmansia, Random thoughts, Weather, Seedlings Mother Nature's Revenge! After several year's of relatively mild winters, the dark side of mother surfaced again this month. In January we had a hard freeze that brought temperatures down to the mid 20's for a couple of days. Now, just a few weeks later we are back in Mother Nature's deep freeze. All I can say is that I hate cold weather!!!!!!!! I know this is going to be a major setback to my hybridizing program. My motto in times of crisis has always been, "deal with it and move on", and that's what I will do. I knew going into winter I would be gambling with the weather. I was betting on another mild winter, and I lost my bet. Hey, were in a period of global warming, winters are supposed to be warmer than usual, right? I had planned to build a shade structure last fall to protect my plants, but time was not on my side. It did not help that I grew many more seedlings that I had planned. I know being a pack rat contributed to that. When more seeds than expected germinated from a cross, I planted them all rather just plant 20-30 seedlings as a trial. That will change this year for sure.Now the waiting game begins to see how many seedlings recover. To keep myself from getting too bummed about this, I remind myself that even if I lost 2,000 seedlings to the back to back freezes, I have over 6,000 more that survived and may be blooming this year! What a busy year! To sow or not to sow.... Print Rate this article: No rating 7807 Tags:BrugmansiabrugsfreezeSeedlings