FROST and in the TEENS at Night

My weather website (www.wunderground.com) has been lying to me. They keep saying we are having night in the mid-20's but each night this week the temp here at Villa Cappello has dropped into the range of 18-19 degrees. Crap.

Hopefully, no lasting damage has been done. I've been faithfully covering the Arbequina with 2 tarps and it has been frost free, so I hope that means something. Today I added 3 strings of yellow Christmas lights that we bought for our Christmas tree (they were supposed to be "gold" which sounded too good to be true, and alas, it was. I wove the lights in amongst the branches and then in circles around the bottom, to turn on at night to keep it warm-ish.

I also decided to wrap the Junipers in burlap even though they are winter hardy...I just remember the lady at Sunnyside Nursery telling me 'when it drops into the teens, wrap the evergreens'....at least the young ones.

Below are some photos I took this morning. The frost is pretty at least. And none of the plants or trees yet looks truly worse for the wear.