Sommer Gardens / Sunday, January 3, 2010 / Categories: Weather Mounds of snow? Thank goodness no, but the billowy white frost cloth sort of gives the appearance of snow mounds from a distance.With a long spell of cold weather in the forecast this week, I covered many of my in-ground brugs with frost cloth. Hopefully this will provide a few extra degrees of warmth, enough to keep them from experiencing the freeze damage they would incur if I did not cover them. The large covered plant on the right in the photo below is a 8 foot tall Cherub. It was just getting ready to have a major flush of blooms. :( I'm using overhead sprinklers to protect a large majority of my potted seedlings. This means I have to turn the sprinklers on when the temperature hits 33, and then continue to run the water until the temperature rises to 37 in the morning. Ice will form, but as long as the water continues to flow and the ice continues to form, the plants should survive. The ice actually forms a protective blanket over the plant keeping the temperature right around 32-33. If the sprinklers were to stop while it was still below freezing, the temperature would drop quickly and the plants would receive severe damage. I hate cold weather...and so do my Brugs!!!! Mother nature wreaks havoc on my Angel Trumpets. Print Rate this article: No rating 7895 Tags:Angel TrumpetBrugmansiabrugscold weatherfreezefrostfrost cloth