00:00Good morning everyone and here is our follow-up from last night. We iced those plants starting at
00:078 something, 8 30 in the evening and look at this thick thick layer. Those are flowers
00:17through all that ice and they are sitting very happily in their cocoon of ice. The
00:29neat thing is that, well even look at this, it's so neat, even the vegetation on the
00:37ground looks really amazing. You can hear the ice starting to melt. So the misters
00:44are so fine that they coat the plant very evenly. So as you can see, well maybe,
00:55hopefully as you can see, these plants are actually still upright. It's kind of hard
00:59to tell there, but they're still upright from where they started. The ice did not
01:05smush them down. Here's a good example. This geronicon, we looked at this last
01:09night. It's still exactly where it was, but because it coats it so fine and even, the
01:19ice actually just freezes right around it and keeps it upright. It doesn't smush it
01:25down. Amazing process. Here we are. So not done. No sprinklers. These daylilies were
01:34hardened off. They overwintered here and then sprinklered. Look at all this ice and
01:42the sun is coming out. Well, the sun is out and now we are moving toward thawing
01:50all of this out. And here is our weeping cherry that I said looked like a crystal
01:56chandelier last night. It's got some real good ice there. All this ice is going to
02:03melt. Here's our creeping phlox that we're looking at. It's going to melt and those plants
02:08are going to be as fresh as the first day that they came to the nursery. Look at this
02:14guy. Very cool. Again, so thanks for going on this journey with me. And like I said, you
02:24can do this at home. It's a really neat experience. If you're concerned about protecting your plants,
02:29you can just turn those sprinklers on. It's a glorious day here in New Hampshire. I hope
02:35everyone has a great one.
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