According to estimates Hurricane Ian hit us with winds of 60-75 mph that lasted all night and half of the next day. We did have some damage to our garden and our old oak tree. Our new trees, however, did surprisingly well.
Here's our orange tree, which we almost lost to frost last winter. It didn't produce any fruit this year. However, it didn't lose any branches during the storm, and now it's starting to show new growth.
Our lemon tree also survived the hurricane intact. Since it's relatively new we did add an extra support brace to help keep it from being uprooted. It was also sheltered by our house for the first half of the storm, so that may have been a factor.
We removed nearly all the blooms when it flowered, but left a couple intact to see what would happen, and now we have a few baby lemons growing.
One thing I felt bad about with Hurricane Ian was our grapefruit tree, which was loaded up with fruit that won't be ripe for a few more months. It's also out in a place in the yard where there is nothing to protect it. I even predicted to my guy that we would lose them all to the storm.
Very startled and super happy that I was wrong -- we didn't lose a single grapefruit.
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