January plunge on top of other severe climate fluctuations wreaks havoc on growers
The 80-year-old Richmond, B.C., gardener hasn’t recovered yet from what he calls the “crime scene” he found in two greenhouses one morning in mid-January — thousands of dead and dying plants, thanks to a sudden cold snap and snowfall.
Tai and his wife Sonia, said in interviews in Mandarin and English that they lost 2,000 plants that night in January. In nearby Paulik Park, Richmond Garden Club president Lynda Pasacreta pointed to a mahonia where hummingbirds had been coming to feed in December and early January.“This is very, very sad and you can see on the ground all that has been lost,” said Pasacreta, pointing to the dead yellow leaves. “I am sure the hummingbirds are pretty upset.”
Some evergreens have dropped their leaves, a result of a combination of stresses rather than a single event, he said. “Their energy reserves are depleted during every one of those stressful events, whether it’s the drought in the summertime or the extreme cold in the winter,” he said. “But the problem was that the cold followed a period of warmth … and I think that plants are just stressed, not able to tolerate all these kinds of rapid changes,” said Justice.
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