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RECOVERY

For those with a more than casual interest in SoCal flora, we have some guidance today on frost recovery from the LATimes:

After the Frost—Time for a Comeback

The article covers everything we have and have done.

Our prognosis and advice were right on target.

There are a few bougainvillea that are in doubt but, as the article states, we will know in June.

The only thing that it does not cover is hibiscus.

We cut our big bushes in the back down by half. They are bounding back. So are the new plants that went in 'in time for the party'.

The most satisfying thing is the white hibiscus at the front door.

It got mauled around and lost a lot of leaves but it has come back a bit and, unaccountably, is producing huge blooms on the less affected branches.

It is a tough mother.

An old bush too. Gnarly.

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