Whether you call
them ice poles (London), tip-tops (Birmingham) or fruit ices. When is comes to
summer, we all want to get our hands on some frozen fruity water to help cool
us down.
However, for a
farm in Florida, it seems the fruit ices have arrived early. Despite being
known as the Sunshine State, temperatures dropped to below zero last week, leaving
farmers with a frosty welcome in the morning.
The trees in the
orange grove were dripping with icicles.
Not even the
flowers got a lucky escape with this one seemingly perfectly preserved in a
block of ice.
Luckily, the cold snap that the farm experience in December seemed to prepare the fruit for colder weather. They were able to salvage much of the oranges by spraying them with water to keep the temperature from dropping below 0 degrees.
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