My little make do green house is full.

I put water teepees on a few small plants.

Still need to put the faucet covers on.

This is a sad time for me. So many plants that gave their best, even through the drought, will soon be no more

I understand the feelings. :(

Its a sad day when I take the hummer feeders down and wash them and pack them away. I'm probably the last to pull mine in. That's when it starts for me. I keep them in the same box as the faucet covers. :)

It is coming. I'm still seeing butterflies!
I can remember sometimes it comes over Thanksgiving.

I spent last Saturday getting the garage cleared out and ready to move plants in. Still unsure I can make it all fit!!

I've already pulled the really sensitive stuff inside. We had one freeze up here already.

Looks like my area has at least 10 more good days ahead.

I'm going to miss my little buddies who hung on through the worst of the summer. BUT I have big plans for new ones!
Thankfully we have a very short 'winter season' here in Texas!

Yesterday I stripped all the leaves from the plumeria and knocked the dirt left in their roots and tucked them away in the spare room. The bananas and ginger are inside too as well as the tender tropicals that spend the warm days of summer outside. The rest are staged on the driveway, debugged and potted for that last minute dash to bring them all in.

While I do enjoy cooler weather to get outdoor exercise, it really saddens me that dormancy is upon us.

PK, how do you bring your bananas in? Do you keep them potted or bare-root or???

Thanks!
Lin

I have to last minute cover a couple things with a plastic pot but other than that I'm good to go.

Lin, I pot them but go very sparingly with the water during winter. Mine are still small, the summer was not kind to them.

I have a friend who digs hers up and throws them in the crawl space.

Thanks, PK - I planted one out in the garden in the spring and it's done so well I want to make sure it overwinters, so I may pot it up. I've already potted up the plumeria (just to protect the roots from errant puppies) and the Crinum Menehune; this weekend I think I'll get the aloe and bananas...

Lin

Looks like we might see some warmer than normal temperature for a while

Here is a link that might be useful: Pattern change heralds trend to milder weather

I was on planning to go swimming at Hamilton pool this weekend...Warm weather!!!!!! Celebrating Travis county buying another 800 acres of land for the park so it wouldn't get developed.

I have my tender Aloes and cactus close to the door that they get dragged in for the Bad freezes. they now have a stone covered (not that it will ever rain again) patio that faces south and gets great winter sun so it heats up great and has its own micro climate. Te stuff that is hardy to mid 20's is still up in dangers way. But I am getting the hundreds of pots on the move. I still have my Huge 6' Epi to hoist on top of a cabinet. I wait till the last on that one and roll it close to the house a couple of times to gamble with the weather. We still have not frozen yet but my neighbors have. They are lower than me. Things seem manageable

I hope so, texasflip, as I cannot put things up for the winter until after the 19th..............thanks for making me feel better.

please, please, just 3 more weeks...

Three more weeks sounds good!

Location, location, location.

19 degrees two nights ago here in Amarillo.

Texas is funny that way. A few years ago our church sold boxes of citrus fruit. A truck delivered them from the Valley. Brownsville area.

It started snowing while we were unloading. The truck driver was wide-eyed. He'd never seen snow before.

It's a looooooooong way from Brownsville to Amarillo, RC........a looooooooog way !!!

It just goes to show what having such a large state can do as far as climate variety...

This is my first winter away from Missouri. There, everyone was pretty much in the same boat all at once as far as weather goes.

Down here we haven't even seen weather in the 30s yet. I have my really tender stuff inside already because that's what I'm used to. I am trying my best to leave the potted things that are hardy down here outside despite my Missouri urge to pull them in. I just need to adjust the way I garden and I'll do okay down here.

I can't believe it has snowed in some parts of the state! I've seen the pictures, but it still seems so strange...

AOK

We had more snow than I wanted here in North Texas last winter.........I hope we don't get a repeat !!!

The snow didn't bother me so much. It was the ice that did me in. :(