From flowers to horses, folks spent Friday getting ready for frigid temperatures over the weekend. At Mead Botanical Garden in Winter Park, some of the plants spread across their 47 acres had to be prepped for the temperatures to drop this weekend. “About eight hours of prep and hard work,” said Ashley Fraebel, the executive director. She said a team of volunteers tackled the plants most sensitive to cold. As a nonprofit, they want to protect and save as much as they can. “We have frost cloths out and they finished putting away the really sensitive plants today. They took them inside to make sure that none of them are impacted by the weather,” she said. Fraebel said the city of Winter Park helped them get prepared, too. “They came out today to make sure that the irrigation systems were shut off and shut off at the well as well, so that the sprinklers don’t go off and cause additional frost,” she said. While the botanical garden pulled out its frost blankets, over at AAA Equestrian in Orange County, they were readying their horse blankets. “They each require a different size blanket, so in the cold months, they are blanketed,” said Jamie Browne, a barn manager there.She said people will be checking on the horses here overnight, making sure they’re eating, drinking, and haven’t lost their blankets.She said wind is one of the factors they’re worried about. But the horses have stalls they can duck into. “That change in wind is going to be so much on Saturday and Sunday,” Browne said.She said the horses will have a way to go in and out of stalls when they need to. She said after this weekend, their horses will be more than ready for warmer temperatures to return.”They are going to be eager for that sun to come out for sure,” she said.
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. —
From flowers to horses, folks spent Friday getting ready for frigid temperatures over the weekend.
At Mead Botanical Garden in Winter Park, some of the plants spread across their 47 acres had to be prepped for the temperatures to drop this weekend.
“About eight hours of prep and hard work,” said Ashley Fraebel, the executive director.
She said a team of volunteers tackled the plants most sensitive to cold. As a nonprofit, they want to protect and save as much as they can.
“We have frost cloths out and they finished putting away the really sensitive plants today. They took them inside to make sure that none of them are impacted by the weather,” she said.
Fraebel said the city of Winter Park helped them get prepared, too.
“They came out today to make sure that the irrigation systems were shut off and shut off at the well as well, so that the sprinklers don’t go off and cause additional frost,” she said.
While the botanical garden pulled out its frost blankets, over at AAA Equestrian in Orange County, they were readying their horse blankets.
“They each require a different size blanket, so in the cold months, they are blanketed,” said
Jamie Browne, a barn manager there.
She said people will be checking on the horses here overnight, making sure they’re eating, drinking, and haven’t lost their blankets.
She said wind is one of the factors they’re worried about. But the horses have stalls they can duck into.
“That change in wind is going to be so much on Saturday and Sunday,” Browne said.
She said the horses will have a way to go in and out of stalls when they need to.
She said after this weekend, their horses will be more than ready for warmer temperatures to return.
“They are going to be eager for that sun to come out for sure,” she said.
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