Snow!? In New Orleans? I took a few shots. The picture without snow was 2 days ago I think. I hope some things recover.
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Joan Garvey - Metairie, LA Zone 9

Great pictures Joan - and I love your snowman! It really is pretty - and I have to say I love the beauty of a snowfall and really missed it when we lived on Okinawa or when we were in Texas....

Carol
Milford, CT
Zone 6

It's starting to melt a bit now so I can start to survey the damage. Involucrata broke from the weight of the snow. I'll know more tomorrow. It's only going to 35 tonight and will be in the high 50's and sunny tomorrow.

Joan Garvey - Metairie, LA Zone 9

Beautiful! Just think 3 hours away we aren't going to get any.

How did you keep your garden going for so long? I still have flowers blooming but nothing like yours and I cover them up every night the temps go below 40.

Patti--Zone 8
Mobile, AL

How beautiful Joan. I like your snowman too.



Dianne
Southeast Alabama
Heat Zone 8
Sunset Zone 31

I never knew it snowed there, wow! I saw that on the radar (it was pink on doppler) and said holy cow!

Maryjane
W Ga
Zone 8a

It doesn't usually snow here at all much less this early. Patti, I haven't covered up anything yet and am not going to tonight. It's not supposed to freeze so everything is on it's own. Last year I covered my big calliandra and let the steam from the hot tub keep it warm, but I may not go to that trouble this year. It looks o.k. since the snow is melting. I did have some vervain cuttings in pots that I brought in earlier in the week and always bring in my dwarf red vervain.

Joan Garvey - Metairie, LA Zone 9

Joan that looks like what I have in my yard right now. That is amazing. I know all the hummer gardeners are in a panic but the kids have to be loving it.

Penny
Niagara Falls, NY
USDA zone 6a/6b
Heat zone 4
Sunset zone 39

Like Joan, we in Baton Rouge got a rare snowfall too - about 3 inches worth that stuck. Closing in on midnight, my yard's still covered and my car has a light covering left, but it should all melt away tomorrow.

Some images from my home office window, where I watch my yard birds (you can see the snow on some of my hummingbird feeders, but I kept the one outside my window thawed and clear):

Thanks for the memories... snow is one of those things that I really don't miss. I used to live in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and did enough shoveling to last a lifetime.

Cool snowman (pardon the pun).

We're do for a cold spell next week too... will probably have to fire up my furnace for the first time this year.

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Farmer Steve
Deluz, CA (hand-grown CA avocados) usda zone 10a

I remember it snowed in NOLA when I lived there in the 70's.  Cars wrecked all over the place.  For me, snow is a 4 letter word.


Annie

Boy Kevin, y'all really got it! Some places in Louisiana had 8" of snow. I don't remember it snowing in the 70's, but could be wrong. The snowfalls I remember were when I was a child in the 50's; we built a snowman then, and in 1989. The whole city was immobilized. It was freezing so all bridges iced over. You think people drive poorly here now, watch them deal with an icy road.

Joan Garvey - Metairie, LA Zone 9

Joan, Forum members--

There was periodic snow in the 1970's in south Louisiana, although not a whole lot of it. I remember a couple of winters when I was a kid, including (I think) 1972-73, which was the year my parents broke ground on their new house. That's the only way I can date the memory because I remember pictures of the construction site covered in snow.

Surprisingly, despite having snow covering things for hours, and another night of freezing weather, a number of my plants still look decent this morning. The pink and red Firespikes are still blooming, as is the Mexican bush sage, snd there are still some flowers on the Pineapple sage and Sultan's Turban. The orange abutilon is still standing tall, althoguh there are no flowers on it currently. It'll take another day or two to see whether the other hummer plants die back to the ground or not.

Most of the tropicals (bananas, etc.) around the pond are probably going to die back now for the winter, but that's normal and they'll be back in the spring.

Kevin Morgan
Baton Rouge, LA

Annie, welcome to the forum!

Maryjane
W Ga
Zone 8a