Oh my gosh. At first glance I thought they were in ground and snapped off down low. Ironically I was bringing mine in to dodge a storm also. Was it just the candystripe that's broke?

Mike

Silly me the Celadine broke also. Oh and your yard is great.

Mike

Ouch, sorry to see your plants in this condition.

However you have the right attitude... one person's broken branch is another person's nice fresh cutting...

Hope all goes well with the cleanup.

Oh my gosh!! How awful. I hope it's not as bad as it looks. But you do have a wonderful attitude about it... hopefully everything will root for you and all will be alright. Good luck. :)

WOW! What a side site. I feel terrible for you. Like you said you will have some nicwe cuttings! Still, how heart wrenching!

Andrew

Oh K what a sight to come home to. Poor things and now you have your work cut out for you to clean all that up. Wish we were there to lend a hand. Hopefully some one will get an instant tree out of it. Peg

No-Clue, Klause gave me a rooted cutting from his celadine last October at our meeting. I planted it at the coast in his special plumeria mix. It is not very tall, but blooms non-stop. He has beautiful plumeria trees growing in his back yard.

No-Clue don't worry your wildfire, was brought in before the storm. I will try and get the Raspberry Sundae for you, and mail them both together on Monday or Tuesday. I am leaving town on Tuesday, to take the dogs to the coast, so they will not be barking at the men repairing out house. Barbra

Ouch!
Tally Ho!

Sounds good Barbra! I know Wildfire is in good hands. Thank you!

Oh no! It's a wonder you didn't have a heart attack on the spot! On the bright side... it could have been so much worse. Like potted plumeria floating down the street like the garbage can did. EEK!

I'm sorry, but glad it wasn't any worse.

Hey K,

I am so sorry for all of the damage that the thunderstorm brought to your yard... Makes my heart ache for you, but you do have the right attitude about the cuttings. Someone will benefit from your generosity and im sure they will be grateful.

My Divine had a bad experience with strong winds last year. I sent that cutting to a friend in NOVA and it is doing great. I think i am more pleased that he got the variety that he reslly wanted and im ok with the break...

I would tie the limbs together with twine and give them support by either staking them or by using a method that Dave in Nova told me about long ago. He uses Rebar and put it right through the pot into the ground to take care of top heavy containers. I have done this in the past and it has really helped. I do tie all of my trees to the railing with twine just in case they are really dry and the winds do pick up. It was that one Divine that i thought would be fine and i didnt have it secured.

I know you have a lot of work to do.. Good luck on the clean up and i hope you find your Recycle Bin!!

Trees are going to have accidents.. Now you will have more trees to love!!!

Take care,

Laura

Kms2- I looked at your photos and felt PAIN.... So sorry for the loss you endured. Huff I'm just speechless. So sorry:(

I bet you were just loosing it in the car- stuck in that traffic so close to home. I should say I would be loosing it, for sure. Bummer puts it lightly.

Sorry for your 'loss' but cheers to your gains. :o)

Wendy

rebar through the pot, what a great idea!
Tally Ho!

My plants that aren't plunged have some sort of tie down. Here in OK just the day to day winds can push 30-40 mph.

Mike

OUCH! Geez, K, that made me wince just looking at your photos! And I know you keep everything pretty carefully weighted down.

I'm sorry about the breaks, especially Candystripe, but you're right that those branches will make someone very happy.

I had rocks up to 40-50lbs in weight on the pots and they were heavy from rain. I have used 3/8 inch rebar as anchors and in one case it was pulled up and held on others but the plant is now bent and distorted from the wind.

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Hi K,

All of that weight and rebar?

That just tells me that the winds were quite strong. Did you ever hear what the gust were in your area?

With all that you had done to protect the trees, you are lucky to still have them in your yard.

I am still shocked...

Take care,

Laura

Oh my I know you have to be heartbroken!! I guess the bright side is you will have cuttings to root or share. Its still a sad thing. Your trees are beautiful and anyone can see how well you care for them. Hopefully no more windy storms in the near future. I am a newbie and I have only 4 rooted plants and everytime I know we are getting bad storms I am running out to bring them in. I feel your pain. Hope things get better for you soon :)

Jackie

They seem to be OK otherwise. So many flowers were knocked off and a few inflos snapped off too but thats how it goes. I will take the risk of this kind of bad weather over no weather.

I wish there was a method to the madness to figure out. Some with just rocks were fine and others weren't. Some of the rebar had worked itself out of the ground and some held. Maybe because the ground was very soft and it blew out of the southeast which is very rare without a tropical cyclone. I would estimate the gusts to be 50+mph by the fact nearly whole trees were in motion. It was a pretty impressive microburst. While i was waiting for a light it was rocking my truck and a large branch from a Mesquite tree fell in front of me and a street sign blew over hitting a car a few lengths behind me. I think this was just one of those instances that you can only clean up after and make the best of it.

I am going to buy some longer 4 ft sections of rebar now and put a 90 degree bend one end to hook over the lip of the pot. Then drive it with a sledge as far as I can. Come winter time I will just turn the rebar out of the way to move the pot or use leverage to pull it out.

I'm so very sorry to see what happened to your trees :( I wish I had your good attitude about things but the storms this weekend and the severe winds knocking everything over made me worry like crazy! Minor damage, thank goodness, but I HATE that sick feeling when you see your trees flung around like that. Best wishes for a speedy plumie recovery.