Frost and the garden

This weekend, and in last week with the assistance of my brother) I got most of the plants and trees covered for the winter. I expect a rather cold winter, with more of the black frost we had last year.
















Contractors reinforcing mesh frame, covered with shadecloth.

Now at that time I didn't even consider covering the plants, but this year, what with having spent nearly ZAR200 per tree, and I have 6 of them, and a small fortune on other plants, I decided to preempt the situation.










Shadecloth draped over machined wooden poles from Germany! Compliments of the Princess's employer!

So we bought a whole lot of shade cloth from the factory (they sell off their "reject" stuff relatively cheaply), and covered the gardens!












Shadecloth over the wall garden next to Queenies parking spot

It's not a very dense shade cloth, but then it's better than nothing, and worked out at least 15 - 20 ZAR cheaper, per running meter, than the hessian cloth we looked at first.
















And over the smaller tree, using Black wattle sapling poles cut down in the veld nearby for frames.

Salagatle!