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Recent Examples of cold frame
Shelter plants from wind and surround containers with bubble wrap or place them in a cold frame if temperatures go below 15°F.
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Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Jan. 2025
The most common and typically most safe method is to simply move the containers indoors to a basement, cold frame, unheated garage or garden shed.
—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 22 Dec. 2024
In colder climates, consider adding a cold frame topper to raised beds for an extended growing season.
—Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 24 Sep. 2024
Consider starting seedlings indoors or using tools like grow tents or cold frames to move your plants outdoors before the weather heats up.
—Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 June 2024
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Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Jan. 2025
The most common and typically most safe method is to simply move the containers indoors to a basement, cold frame, unheated garage or garden shed.
—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 22 Dec. 2024
In colder climates, consider adding a cold frame topper to raised beds for an extended growing season.
—Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 24 Sep. 2024
Consider starting seedlings indoors or using tools like grow tents or cold frames to move your plants outdoors before the weather heats up.
—Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cold frame
Noun
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This small island in the Mediterranean is one of the closest to North Africa and has been a hotbed of conflict, colonization and military maneuvers during the war.—
Liza B. Zimmerman,
Forbes.com,
21 July 2025
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Even the more populated hotbeds like Los Angeles, Chicago and New York/New Jersey are left with very few opportunities for burgeoning pipelines of rising talent.—
Jeff Rueter,
New York Times,
10 July 2025
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But Hurricane Milton in 2024 proved particularly damaging, with the saltwater storm surge burning many plants, and the hurricane debris severely damaging original greenhouses and campus trees.—
Kelsey Glennon,
Southern Living,
19 July 2025
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Plus, there are greenhouses, seed labs and carnivorous plants all over.—
Mitch Wallace,
Forbes.com,
17 July 2025
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The one downside was the conservatory was older and they were not equipped to deal with the intense heat.—
Janet B. Carson,
Arkansas Online,
29 June 2025
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In the film, Andrew is constantly at odds with Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons), a jazz instructor at a prestigious New York City music conservatory who tests the limits of his students with his mentally and verbally abusive teaching methods.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
22 June 2025
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“Cold frame.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cold%20frame. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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