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Though spring had sprung, North Carolinians felt the cold bite of polar chill on April 8, 2007 when the temperature dropped to 21 degrees in Charlotte, the coldest April day on record for the state. Ten inches of snow fell in parts of the North Carolina?EUR??,,????'?????< Although retail nurseries in the Hendersonville, N.C. area saved most their stock by moving it indoors, the wholesale growers and landscape suppliers in the eastern North Carolina green industry report heavy losses. Breezy Acres, a wholesale commercial nursery with about a half-million dollars of Japanese maples in stock moved as much inside as possible. Those trees not heated, however, lost all their flowers. While these trees are not dead, the new season growth is. Workers must now remove the dead foliage do light-tip pruning to encourage new growth. The bark could split open. It could be a year before the commercial nurseries know if their trees exposed to the freeze will survive.
Though spring had sprung, North Carolinians felt the cold bite of polar chill on April 8, 2007 when the temperature dropped to 21 degrees in Charlotte, the coldest April day on record for the state. Ten inches of snow fell in parts of the North Carolina?EUR??,,????'?????<
Although retail nurseries in the Hendersonville, N.C. area saved most their stock by moving it indoors, the wholesale growers and landscape suppliers in the eastern North Carolina green industry report heavy losses.
Breezy Acres, a wholesale commercial nursery with about a half-million dollars of Japanese maples in stock moved as much inside as possible. Those trees not heated, however, lost all their flowers. While these trees are not dead, the new season growth is.
Workers must now remove the dead foliage do light-tip pruning to encourage new growth. The bark could split open. It could be a year before the commercial nurseries know if their trees exposed to the freeze will survive.
Francisco Uviña, University of New Mexico
Hardscape Oasis in Litchfield Park
Ash Nochian, Ph.D. Landscape Architect
November 12th, 2025
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