Perna, When you put your beds to sleep for the winter, do you cover them with straw? Or do you have another method??
Of course in Florida, we don't have the harsh winters that folks north of us do, but we do have frosts when the weather gets cold. We generally water down all the plants that might freeze and cover them if it is going to get below 30 degrees. It seemed stange at first to water down plants and then see them in the morning covered with ice, and yet thaw out and be just fine. I guess it is the northern spirit in me that remembers winters in PA, and all the frosts and snow and ice, which takes a bit of getting used to the changes in the seasons down here. Nature does not shout out loud the change of seasons, it just quietly turns from bright green to drab brown without the northern fanfair. Mostly everyone I meet that come to FL, to live miss the snow at Christmas time. Yes, we hang our lights and decorate the yard and have some sort of Christmas Tree, but that warmth excitement of seeing snow on Christmas morn never quite leaves your memories alone.