Several orange Geiger trees planted at our office site here in Port Charlotte’s Centennial Park in 2019 were subsequently damaged or frozen to the ground in a January 2022 freeze.
Orange Geiger trees or Cordia sebestena are very sensitive to the cold and were marginal at our site — best kept closer to the coast.
However, if a cold-hardy relative, the Texas olive (Cordia boissieri) had been planted instead, all would have been well — “Right Plant, Right Place” — right?…