News events that affect your Middle Tennessee landscape
Every so often, major newsworthy events are related to landscaping in some way. Here are a few articles that pertain in some way to landscaping in the Nashville area and beyond.
- Gardeners Shift to Salvage Mode After Freeze Tennessean, April 14, 2007:: Then the freeze hit — hard — and stopped spring in its tracks. Now some trees' leaves are black and droopy
- We have to adapt to our changing climate Tennessean, May 13, 2007 :: "What was so dramatic about the April freeze was not so much the cold but that it followed such a warm week prior..."
- 'Once in 50 year' freeze killed many Tennessee crops Tennessean, May 27, 2007 :: "March had been unseasonably warm. April arrived with promise, but then it froze for about five straight nights...."
- Cold snap harmed some plants... Evansville paper, but applies to Middle Tennessee as well :: "The severe cold weather we had during the weekend of April 13 (Easter weekend) did a number on our landscape and crop plants."
- Late Spring Freeze Damage Gardenweb :: "Magnolias, celtis, crape myrtles, and idesia were fried to a crisp..."
- Views of the 2007 Freeze: Tennessean Readers