Yeah, as Dibbet mentioned, you are not alone... much of this is typical now for the upper south. By now, most of our trees are typically full of foliage. Not so this time, as it was in late March, but record lows in the lower 20s ruined all of it. I feel your pain... the same thing has happened here in northeast Tennessee. Sadly, NONE of my trees that lost new foliage in the freeze have recovered at all. I am not sure if they ever will. Tge leaves are brown and dull. If so, its going to be one ugly summer. If not and they do recover with new leaves, I think that we will have to deal with the pollen all over again. On an interesting note, I had to go to Maryville, Tennessee today- which is about 30 miles southwest of Knoxville. I was happy and surprised that there was little damage to the foliage there on the trees, which leads me to believe that the tree foliage damage in northern Alabama and northwestern Georgia was very minimal as well. I have heard some reports however that in north GA and north AL that some leaf loss is as much as 90% in some areas. I have no idea however, as I have not seen any photos of the trees in that area to make an evaluation. We do have areas with more foliage, like the Kingsport area has much more, as does parts of town around here. I guess this weekends and next weeks upper 70s and lower 80s will really accelerate the foliage. It was not until I got almost into Knoxville that I started really starting noticing the much less damage... it was really noticable when I entered Knox county and the further southwest I went, there was less and less damage- which should be expected as they are further south and about 800 ft. lower in elevation that us here in Bristol, but I did not think there would be so much less damage. I noticed that the Willow oak trees down around the airport have NO damage whereas mine was heavily damaged. They did have some leaf burn however on some of the Pear trees, but it was worse here, but only on the side that the wind was coming from... I guess that added to the chill on them. In Knoxville, this did not seem to be a problem as bad as it was here. I think we were in the worse situation for this... we are far enough south to have had the temps in the 70s and 80s for weeks- making the trees well ahead of schedule, but far enough north to suffer more of the effects of that unusually cold chill we had on the first weekend of April. I am really concerned about my Live Oaks... I think it ruined them... all of the new growth was destroyed and I see no new growth coming back out.... Here is a before/after photo... I took the last photo right after the major freeze. I will take more this weekend and as you will see... not much change. Most all trees are still bare, which is very unusual, as by now, most are getting quite full. Late March looking out my front lawn.... (to view - "copy" the link and paste in your browser, but leave off the " [IMG] ". [IMG]http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e172/Tennesseestorm/Tree%20album/100_4599.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e172/Tennesseestorm/Tree%20album/100_4609.jpg[/IMG] Around April 10th-11th.... [IMG]http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e172/Tennesseestorm/Tree%20album/100_4730.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e172/Tennesseestorm/Tree%20album/100_4741.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e172/Tennesseestorm/Tree%20album/100_4731.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e172/Tennesseestorm/Tree%20album/100_4745.jpg[/IMG] New growth on my Southern Live Oaks were destroyed: [IMG]http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e172/Tennesseestorm/Tree%20album/100_4675.jpg[/IMG] NE Tennessee - Zone 6B-7A

Just to add a bit, you may wish to wait a bit before cutting any questionable sections. In Danville, my lemons have re-sprouted leaves on branches that had a bit of brown. This week i will be cutting the moldy, light brown and very dead branches, but any questionable ones i will wait another month or two. On a different note, i just noticed my (previously 5 ft.) V.Pink Lemon in Napa push a nub 1/2" above the graft line. I think it felt me me wanting to dig it up and it responded. - ha! [now hoping my Bearss Lime will do the same] That December stretch of 10 18F-25F nights really surprised me as to what was killed and damaged... and which area of the yard too. I do plan to post pics of the recoveries. -George

looks like something is snaking on them, my little tree had the same thing and it turned out to be spider mites. im not familiar with the bugs in your area but i would check for that. sift your fingers through the soil and pay close attention because some of the criters are small and hard to notice. also if u havnt repoted it i would recomend doing that. be sure to remove all the old soil from the roots as it can harden there over time and choke out the tree. re pot it in a good draining soil that dosnt hold to much water. theres a recipe for a mix on here called 5.1.1 but you can use a cactus or sitrus soil from a garden center if you wish. if you do find that the problem is bugs you can spray with an insectasidial soap (follow the directions on the bottle) which u can also by at your garden center. you can also ask someone at the garden center for there advice im sure they will be happy to help. keep us posted and let us know how it turns out cheers, chris

I don't have a lemon, but do have a satsuma...did the best I could to protect it but snow and prolonged temps at 17 degrees are just too cold for even a cover in the middle of a yard. My tree is young, but lost all of it's leaves and looked dead for a while. It has slowly put back on leaves....I did give it several fertilizer spikes for citrus trees. It did not, however, bloom. I think that was just too much for it to do. I wouldn't give up yet if it's still green. Baby it and make sure it has enough water and see what happens. I didn't prune the dead leaves after the snow because I felt like that would encourage new growth that would get frozen anyway.