Texans Scramble To Protect Plants & Flowers From Cold
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COLLIN COUNTY (CBSDFW.COM) - Panic is setting in for many North Texans who got ahead of themselves with their gardening. But the winter weather even has professionals scrambling.
Workers at a nursery in Plano are busy trying to protect their spring plants!
Calloway's Nursery was a very nervous place on Wednesday.
The greenery on display outside at the Plano location has been carefully covered. Inside there are hundreds of spring flowers packed in a greenhouse.
Normally the plants and flowers would be and by March spring planting activity would be well underway.
But Wednesday's exceptionally late season ice storm put employees at Calloway's to work early this morning, to get delicate plants out of the cold.
And the transfer was no easy feat; we're talking hundreds of flowers, worth thousands of dollars that had just been shipped in. Under no circumstances could the delicate foliage be exposed to frost.
"We been prepared, but we're pretty surprised at how long this cold weather has lasted," Calloway's employee Megan McNeese admitted. "It's been crazy trying to bring things in and taking about bringing it back out with all the preparations for spring and everything."
The last two weeks have been hard on the nursery business. But they expect to make up for it when North Texas finally gets some warmer weather.
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