GARDENERS across Logan Country are waking to the sight of their plants dying in frost as one of the coldest winters in about a decade strikes.
Pre-dawn temperatures have fallen below zero over recent weeks, with many in the area waking up to find their gardens and lawns blanketed with frost.
Temperatures in neighbouring Beaudesert have been below freezing twice this month already, colder than this time last year when there were no sub-zero temperatures recorded at the automated weather station there.
Frost might make for attractive photos but it has being playing havoc with plants and vegetables grown in the area.
Logan Village Social Garden Club community liaison Allan Pettigrew said the weather had been some of the coldest he could recall in nearly a decade.
"One of the reasons for the cold snap is the dry conditions over the past two months or so," he said.
Mr Pettigrew has lost several banana trees, peanut bushels and sweet potatoes from the recent frosts and said several of his gardening friends were also bemoaning lost plants.
He said the cold weather did have an advantage for gardeners, however.
"It is a wonderful exterminator of garden pests, so it is not all bad," he said.
Jimboomba Lawn and Garden Services owner Sabine Sydenham said the cold weather had combined with other factors to cause a dramatic business downturn for them.
"Nothing's growing and the grass is dying," she said.
"There's lots of (plant) frostbite. Even the weeds aren't growing that fast."
