Freezing this weekend

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I'm loving reading all of the gardening posts and feel like I'm in a community with such experienced and knowledgeable people. It's now my daily go to before I go and potter in the garden.

I've heard temperatures will drop at the weekend and I've been busy planting up in the garden. Would you do anything about these plants?

Bougainvillea in a pot in an unheated conservatory
Camelia in a pot outside
Rose tree in a pot outside
Seedlings in an unheated conservatory
Cherry and plum tree in pots outside
Recently planted in peonies
Trailing gernaniums in a trough
Nasturtium seedlings outside

I was going to post something similar...i got over excited at the weekend and put some bedding plants and seedlings (sunflower and cosmos) out and now worried re frost, got no fleece🙄

If there’s a frost you could lose the geranium and nasturtiums, op. The others will be fine.

Bedding plants, sunflowers and cosmos will also succumb.

If you don’t have fleece, you could improvise - bubble wrap, cellular blanket etc.

Cut plastic bottles in half, it gives you two small cloches for seedlings. Old net curtains ( does anyone still have them!), bubble wrap, make a ‘tent’ from old sheeting and canes, and cardboard boxes might do the job of protecting against the frost.

As Venus says, most will be OK.

An unheated conservatoru will get warmth from the adjoining house. My pelargoniums live and flower in an unheated conservatory all year round, and a couple of Christmas cacti survived in there this year.

Move geraniums and nasturtiums into the conservatory, everything else is hardy anyway. If the nasturtiums are in the ground, cover with an upside-down plant pot overnight.

Whereabouts in the country are you? Our forecast is for about 5 degrees at the weekend, but only 2 tonight.

I'm in the NW. it's forecast 1 degree on Sunday night.

Good idea about the plastic bottles and upturned plant pots. I'll bring in the geraniums and nasturtiums. It sounds like the bougainvilleas will be okay in the conservatory? Although I thought I read no less than 6 degrees.

I have other seedlings like sunflowers, cornflowers and poppies in trays in the conservatory. I think they should be okay.

I'm hoping after this cold spell, the bedding plants can start to go in.