A few winter pictures from the garden

[happypalms]

The garden is doing well in the cold weather some new plantings are coming through well a couple are feeling the cold but look promising so far but winter is not over yet the last picture is of a satakentia liukiuensis feeling the cold but hasn’t been cooked so far I might put some plastic around it just to help but it was planted as a deep forest tube jus5 to see what would happen and it’s the first winter for it so it’s doing ok once again time will tell.

[happypalms]

 Not to bad for there first winter in the ground 

[Harry’s Palms]

They look like they will be fine . No casualties or die backs yet. You have some marginally sensitive varieties , hopefully no extreme lows in the forecast. Harry

[happypalms]

20 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

They look like they will be fine . No casualties or die backs yet. You have some marginally sensitive varieties , hopefully no extreme lows in the forecast. Harry

A unique microclimate with sandstone as thermal mass and black sandy soils has the advantage of warming up a bit extra in winter temperatures at my house are usually around 8 when I get in the car at 6.30 in the morning but at the bottom of the hill 2 degrees but iam sure the rest of garden is around 2to 3 degrees Celsius I have lost a lot of new varieties over the years and some will never go in the ground containers for there days of growing.

Richard