Severe cold winters in Florida are just frequent enough to devastate citrus in the middle of the state every few decades. Back in the mid-60s, I was visiting family friends as a boy and saw how an untimely hard freeze had shattered the trunks of citrus trees on the exposed crest of a hill. That firmly disabused me of boyhood romantic notions of a life of ease and security as a citrus grove owner. The paradox is that some cold weather -- just enough at the right time -- helps to set citrus fruit toward sweet maturity.
Thank you for your kind reply :-)
I really hadn’t been aware of the risk which citrus farmes have to take, but the weather really can have its mood swings. Sometimes with devastating effect :-(
I still remember from my teenage years in the mid-eighties that there once was a similar occurrence in Northern Italy when millions of olive trees died of an unusually harsh winter. They are evergreen, just like citrus trees.
When I visited America for the first time, I felt like on another planet: green tree foliage in January, and orange trees. Believe it or not, I had never seen a real one :lol: