Hard frost

Is it weird that this is one of my favorite days of the seasoon?

We’ve had a couple of browning-the-edges-of-the-tropicals frosts. But Friday night-Saturday morning we had the killer — more than 12 hours below freezing, bottoming out around 24F. Gave me plenty of work to do this weekend composting blackened flesh from containers and other fragile plants in the ground.

Here are some pix from Saturday morning …

Frosted dahlia.
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Grasses and bottles.
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Castor bean.
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Cassia.
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Papyrus.
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Rescued pineapple lily in the kitchen window.

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Blue bottle stash.
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Bonus blue bottle manipulations.
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