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» Gay_Klok - Another plant saved! :-} Hooray. Do you know what colour it is,
Another plant saved! :-} Hooray. Do you know what colour it is, Patricia. We would love to hear how the patient survives, though it will take a while to be absolutely sure. Lots of luck! <img src="http://www.suite101.com/userfiles/2779/Su101pea.jpg"align=left>Come for a stroll in my gardens
Tasmanian Garden Journal
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» Margot - Can bamboo be grown in zone 5? I really wan't to grow it,but hav
Can bamboo be grown in zone 5? I really wan't to grow it,but have a feeling it wont survive our odd summers.Eileen O'dea - Contributing Editor
Home and Garden
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» CarolWallace - Sure it can. Some of the phyllostachys, and most of the farghes
Sure it can. Some of the phyllostachys, and most of the farghesia will do just fine in zone 5.<img src="http://www.suite101.com/userfiles/79/rhubarb.gif" alt="rheum" align=left>
Carol
virtually gardening
-- posted by CarolWallace
» Margot - Thanks. I have no idea why I thought it couldn't. I really want
Thanks. I have no idea why I thought it couldn't. I really want to grow it,I have So many craft ideas for it.Eileen O'dea - Contributing Editor
Home and Garden
-- posted by Margot
» CarolWallace - Well, look for Farghesia nitida - the clumping kind - otherwise
Well, look for Farghesia nitida - the clumping kind - otherwise you may be very sorry. It's hardy to -20 F.<img src="http://www.suite101.com/userfiles/79/rhubarb.gif" alt="rheum" align=left>
Carol
virtually gardening
-- posted by CarolWallace
» bindweed - Plants outside their climate zones
Much can be done to keep plants alive and well in zones colder than their needs. I remember with awe, Wayne Winterrowd's description of how he and his partner kept a Gunnera alive in Maine. Basically they built a box around it and put in a heat cable -- so intent where they to keep this plant of foliage.Areas with high snowfall also keep plants safe in hard climate zones. In one of the colder parts of MASS I was shocked by the number of plants that shouldn't have survived. The same when I visited a nursery in Durango, CO. Both places had serious snowfalls and plants I thought would die, did not.
Herbert Senft <img src="http://www.fritech.com/skyline/images/gardenerstroll.jpg"
Visit the friendly Pacific Northwest
-- posted by bindweed
» CarolWallace - Herb
Sometimes I think you're our site archaeologist! What are you doing - going through the entire gardening section article by article, discussion by discussion??But I definitely agree with you. In fact, I just got done reading a book about creating a tropical look that had some really interesting methods for protecting slightly tender plants. I'll have to dig it out again and report on those methods for everyone!
-- posted by CarolWallace
» bindweed - Gotta sleuth while I can!
Carol,Actually, I realize that I am still very ignorant about the editor's writing for the forum. To find an arborist hiding under the mid-atlantic was a welcome surprise to me. (I still think we need a bonsai editor -- Chinese toe pruning and all that fun stuff to do with the bondaging of innocent young trees.)
Just visited the water garden site -- as this is one of my loves as well.
My sleuthing will be less as I get busier as the weather improves. Working rock walls and rock gardens in freezing conditions ain't fun! Now the weather has turned and I can begin to mortify!
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Regards 'climate zones' Always pay attention to the rating, but do play with it. Often the severity (length) of the cold snap and the timing of that 'arctic express' is more important than the actual freeze. In the Northwest we are very concerned about 'snowless' arctic outbreaks that occur before plants harden off.
Same said for a March event that might still happen after the mildest winter I can ever remember. All my roses are pruned and even the Kiwi and Grapes are pushing sap and soon will have new growth.A freeze at this point would be horrific.
Also nurserypersons and so called experts can often be very wrong! A good example being the unexpected appearance of a hedge of Nandina in the high desert of Southern CA. I forget the town, but it was high elevation and pure desert, Joshua trees etc. The Nandina hedge was planted as a screen for the highway.
EGAAD! This can't be. Nandina should not be able to take those winters or the blazing hot summers. Yet it did. Same for a Ceanothus bush that a friend of mine planted in the middle of his cedar forest -- "needs sun, won't be happy." Ten years later it thrives!
PS. I am taking winter refuge in a major collection of Arizona Highways I just inherited. They were the first magazine I ever subscribed to as a kid!
I hope more folks visit our cactii and desert forums!
Herbert Senft <img src="http://www.fritech.com/skyline/images/gardenerstroll.jpg"
Visit the friendly Pacific Northwest
-- posted by bindweed
» CarolWallace - Wrong about zones
I know that all too well myself. When I first bought hellebores they were allegedly not hardy here - zone 6. I wanted them so badly I bought and planted some anyway - and not only are they happily in their 9th year, but the catalogs themselves have now noticed that hellebores are hardier than previously thought.And there is the seven year old Phyllostachys nigra I have - allegedly hardy only to zone 7.
And then I have noticed many plants I can grow in my main garden simply because the stone wall shelters them - they are hardy in that area but nowhere else on the property.
-- posted by CarolWallace
» energynow - enjoyed your virtual garden
In response to message posted by CarolWallace:Hi,Carol:
Tamara mentioned to someone on FM site that might find you in Virtual Garden site.
Toured your virtual garden just now and enjoyed it. Looks like a haven. I imagine you could spend the rest of your life working on it.
Take care.
Jean
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