Landscaping Downgrades at WDW

[TrainsOfDisney]

I don’t know how this would work - but could portable heaters have saved some of the plants? It was so cold and windy I’m not sure if that would be possible.

 

[Comped]

Of course you took this instead of the hundreds of photos you could have taken of beautifully landscaped areas around the park.

As someone who literally lives a few minutes away from property, the majority of homeowners near Walt Disney World are struggling with landscaping related damage from the freeze, everything from dead potted plants to frozen bushes to palm trees... And a lot of very brown grass. I was at Animal Kingdom over the weekend and saw the damage, and it was significant and very widespread, trying to claim somehow only one small photograph worth of plants was damaged is simply not correct.

 

[wdrive]

I don’t know how this would work - but could portable heaters have saved some of the plants? It was so cold and windy I’m not sure if that would be possible.

I guess it could have helped, but at DAK specifically there’s so many plants and many in difficult areas to access, never mind install and power a heater, it would have been an almost impossible task.

 

[peter11435]

As someone who literally lives a few minutes away from property, the majority of homeowners near Walt Disney World are struggling with landscaping related damage from the freeze, everything from dead potted plants to frozen bushes to palm trees... And a lot of very brown grass. I was at Animal Kingdom over the weekend and saw the damage, and it was significant and very widespread, trying to claim somehow only one small photograph worth of plants was damaged is simply not correct.

That was not what this was referring to. The photo in question and my post you quoted was from before the freeze in Florida. There is obviously extensive and widespread landscape damage.

The poster was showing that photo trying to claim landscaping downgrades at WDW unrelated to any freeze impacts. They cropped the photo to make things look bad while ignoring all of the beautifully landscaped areas around the park.

 

[Comped]

That was not what this was referring to. The photo in question and my post you quoted was from before the freeze in Florida. There is obviously extensive and widespread landscape damage.

The poster was showing that photo trying to claim landscaping downgrades at WDW unrelated to any freeze impacts. They cropped the photo to make things look bad while ignoring all of the beautifully landscaped areas around the park.

Ah! My mistake!

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Jack Frost? Pfft. We all know who was ACTUALLY responsible...

 

[Disone]

Jack Frost? Pfft. We all know who was ACTUALLY responsible...

Just let it go....

 

[DisneyCane]

As someone who literally lives a few minutes away from property, the majority of homeowners near Walt Disney World are struggling with landscaping related damage from the freeze, everything from dead potted plants to frozen bushes to palm trees... And a lot of very brown grass. I was at Animal Kingdom over the weekend and saw the damage, and it was significant and very widespread, trying to claim somehow only one small photograph worth of plants was damaged is simply not correct.

The only thing that they might have been able to do is spray water so the ice would form and act as an insulator like they used to do on citrus trees before all the groves grew houses. There is no practical way to heat that kind of area unfortunately.


I'm in South Florida and I just got some new sod put in and out arrived pretty brown. My landscaper said the sod farm told him it would recover and it was due to the freeze.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Just let it go....

We told her that, but she was mad because they closed her ride. Now it's back open and she's happily singing in there all day instead of drinking around the world. And of course, it's warmer.