Great style! Looks like an art exhibit.
I'd put on some music and watch them dance.

Great pics! My yard too is full of shrouded figures. The dogs and hens were very concerned and had to check every one out.

BTW, free chickens now available, since the bums kicked away all the carefully applied hay/pine bark around my tender tropicals, that I spent hours working on... I'm so mad at them!!

I used 6 packets of clothespins and a full box of fabric staples. No spare sheets are left in the closet, all are outside. Used up 2 cases of frost blankets.

It gets really tricky covering wide/tall tropicals. Had hubby on the ladder, had to pin together 3 large frost blankets each for the Black Sapote and Jackfruit. Could only cover the top half of the Black Sapote, hope it survives!

This is not fun!

Lisa

I think I put more time into dressing my trees then my own kids tonight... My yard looks like a graveyard gone wild with ghosts everywhere! To add to the effect, about 10 of them are lit from inside (C-9 Christmas lights) I'm sure my neighbors think I've lost it for sure.

The things we do for plants.

Here's a couple of pictures from my hard work. 20-25 mile an hour wind sure made it very hard to put these suckers on. I too used tons of clothes pins and used some Christmas light stakes I found at 75% off to tack the cloth down. I am sooo tired, but I don't think I'll be able to sleep too well, checking the thermometer , not that it matters, can't do anything about it anyways. Hope we have some trees left when this is all done.

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Beautiful work all!!
I agree with treefrog... reminds me of some postmodern art installation...

I'd share pics, but I haven't taken them yet. I was actually just outside OCD-ing on a couple more things before we hit freezing... it's hovering about 34 right now.

I used up all my sheets and then some, and all my x-mas lights, and most of my clothespins. Definitely pushed to the limits on cold protection.

I was outside for about 45 minutes... and it was nice to wear all my winter gear which sees action perhaps twice a year, but my toes are frozen!!!

sleeping with socks on tonight...

Just came in (having a hard time typing) from re-clipping some of the coverings - this wind is crazy. Decided to turn all the lights on, we hit 32.9.
It's going to be a long night, let the OCD begin!

33.8 and slowly dropping. Winds gusting. Tree wraps seem to be secure. I'm off to bed.

You know, I was just thinking... glancing out at my halloween-style wrapped and lit landscape...

It all strikes me as some sort of perverse holiday... considering all of the preparation and execution, the sense of anticipation, the rarity of such an event. Call it "freeze day" or something. I don't know... Anyone know what I mean?

Did someone say Christo? The artist who wraps everything?Your art rivals the pink islands.
I don't have any mummies but I have a lg anthurium at the bottom of the shower I keep thinking is one of my cats.
Call me Mrs Magoo.

I agree, a day in honor of the great freeze. The fun (sort of) thing is that my wife and kids get involved and it actually makes for a strange but fun family experience.

Family Freeze nights sponsored by Christo (great artist)!

Where is the tie dye fabric?

BLue Palm:

I think yours look like monks, not mummies. Maybe they will watch over your garden!

Another good technique for attaching wraps are binder clips. I went to Staples yesterday and bought 140 for about $5. Very handy.

Anita