As usual I'm in awe at the beauty of your garden , ♥️🤗🇺🇸🌹Some have no clue the amount of work that goe into a zone pushers garden like ours🙏♥️🤗🇺🇸 mine is 1/4 the size of yours and can get overwhelming at times🌹Jersey coast I have a bit more time, maybe an extra 2 weeks I start putting mine away Halloween first week of Nov!🙏♥️ continued Blessings 🌴Jose's Tropical Garden 🌴 central NJ
Thank you Jose! But you have a lot of great plants in your space and you do a fabulous job. Next year I am coming for a visit to see your garden in person. I will probably bring you a lot of plants. :)
Recently stumbled upon your channel and have been binging it since! I’ve started my tropical/native-hybrid garden here in KC MO (Zone 6b.) Super envious of your garden, keep up the great work and ideas.
You are in the same planting zone as I am so you can do some really funt things. Just look out for the polar vortex that seems to be hitting the midwest every year. My winter temp lows were better than Tennessee this year. And thank you!
@@newyorktropicalgarden9364 Oh no doubt, the nearest mountains to block the northern winds are south of me, being the ozark mountains. The vortex brought -15f for a few morning hours this year in January, but daytime temperatures at 70 by late January - always a guess here! Always looking for new ways to protect the plants !
@@newyorktropicalgarden9364 Tons of banana, cannas, hedychium ginger, hardy hibiscus, yucca arkansana, native prairie flowering plants and grasses, magnolias, asiatic lilies, datura, fruit trees, etc etc. Haven’t tried my luck with palms, mainly cacti and agave. Yucca rostrata looks super promising though. This doesn’t include the tender tropical fruits such as pomegranate, banana, or citrus - or the orchids I have which is usually what I focus on. So many options to plant in this zone!
@@mustyjusty You have a great collection. I love my pomegrantes and bananas. I have a few lemons (ponderosa, etc) I do struggle with them. My goal it to put the Ponderosa permently outside next year and protect. I have had it it for about 25 years.
Someone in a bonsai Portulacaria Afra Facebook group shared one of your videos. I subscribed right away! Question: I have Portulacaria Afra succulents that I am training into bonsai. They do not like 48° Fahrenheit at night. Do you have any experience with plastic greenhouses? Or how to heat up a greenhouse?
@@googleboy7530 hi there. I need a greenhouse. I put everything in my garage for the winter where it stays about 53 F. I’ve used plastic greenhouses in the spring. Large containers of water will heat up during the day and help at night but you still risk it getting to cool
Been binging ur channel. Be careful about zone denial. I forget how it’s actually calculated anymore but zone 7a in Maryland is not the same zone 7a in Tennessee so blanket use of zones is really not a true measure of potential winter hardiness. I love tree ferns. I keep one potted and it’s a burden lugging around every year. U said u intend to plant urs. Is there actually a method of trying to protect it over winter outside? I’ve never found anyone trying to do so. Another cool “tropical “ plant to try in bletilla, the Chinese ground orchid. I think u have a follower in Tennessee who likes orchids. I have lived with bletilla for well over 25 years and they still amaze me. They bloom in May with actual orchid like flowers and truly are exotic. Also look into mahonia soft caress. This is my first go with it but it looks like a short palm. Very tropical looking
Thank you. And I know my zone denial will get me in trouble. There is a great gardener in Pittsburgh that I follow on Facebook Zone Pushers who overwinters his tree fern outside. I am going to follow his method when I finally put it in the ground. And thanks for the information on the orchids!
Excellent video as allways! When does usually the first frost arrive at your place? By the way, would be interesting to see later how you prepare the musa basjoos for winter.
Thank you! First frost is usually in October but sometimes there can be an early one… The Musa basjoos can definitely handle some frost because I cut them back, so I have some time with them. But I will definitely show my process
I remember reading about someone on the Hudson with a tropical garden (maybe Fine Gardening?). So glad to have found you on UA-cam. Subscribed!
Thank you! It might have been fine Gardening. I did an online blurb last year. And thank you for subscribing
Great Channel, some fantastic looking tropical plants! That view when you walk through the gate, just wow!
Thank you. I love taking new people through the gate for the surprise. I need to do more videos. 😀
Your gardens really looking fantastic this year, you really put in the effort and it pays off 👍
Thank you. The weather really helped this year. Now I just hope cold weather waits for me to finish
As usual I'm in awe at the beauty of your garden , ♥️🤗🇺🇸🌹Some have no clue the amount of work that goe into a zone pushers garden like ours🙏♥️🤗🇺🇸 mine is 1/4 the size of yours and can get overwhelming at times🌹Jersey coast I have a bit more time, maybe an extra 2 weeks I start putting mine away Halloween first week of Nov!🙏♥️ continued Blessings 🌴Jose's Tropical Garden 🌴 central NJ
Thank you Jose! But you have a lot of great plants in your space and you do a fabulous job. Next year I am coming for a visit to see your garden in person. I will probably bring you a lot of plants. :)
Recently stumbled upon your channel and have been binging it since! I’ve started my tropical/native-hybrid garden here in KC MO (Zone 6b.) Super envious of your garden, keep up the great work and ideas.
You are in the same planting zone as I am so you can do some really funt things. Just look out for the polar vortex that seems to be hitting the midwest every year. My winter temp lows were better than Tennessee this year. And thank you!
@@newyorktropicalgarden9364 Oh no doubt, the nearest mountains to block the northern winds are south of me, being the ozark mountains. The vortex brought -15f for a few morning hours this year in January, but daytime temperatures at 70 by late January - always a guess here! Always looking for new ways to protect the plants !
@@mustyjusty just curious what plants you have…
@@newyorktropicalgarden9364 Tons of banana, cannas, hedychium ginger, hardy hibiscus, yucca arkansana, native prairie flowering plants and grasses, magnolias, asiatic lilies, datura, fruit trees, etc etc.
Haven’t tried my luck with palms, mainly cacti and agave. Yucca rostrata looks super promising though.
This doesn’t include the tender tropical fruits such as pomegranate, banana, or citrus - or the orchids I have which is usually what I focus on. So many options to plant in this zone!
@@mustyjusty You have a great collection. I love my pomegrantes and bananas. I have a few lemons (ponderosa, etc) I do struggle with them. My goal it to put the Ponderosa permently outside next year and protect. I have had it it for about 25 years.
Someone in a bonsai Portulacaria Afra Facebook group shared one of your videos. I subscribed right away!
Question: I have Portulacaria Afra succulents that I am training into bonsai. They do not like 48° Fahrenheit at night.
Do you have any experience with plastic greenhouses? Or how to heat up a greenhouse?
@@googleboy7530 hi there. I need a greenhouse. I put everything in my garage for the winter where it stays about 53 F.
I’ve used plastic greenhouses in the spring. Large containers of water will heat up during the day and help at night but you still risk it getting to cool
Been binging ur channel. Be careful about zone denial. I forget how it’s actually calculated anymore but zone 7a in Maryland is not the same zone 7a in Tennessee so blanket use of zones is really not a true measure of potential winter hardiness.
I love tree ferns. I keep one potted and it’s a burden lugging around every year. U said u intend to plant urs. Is there actually a method of trying to protect it over winter outside? I’ve never found anyone trying to do so.
Another cool “tropical “ plant to try in bletilla, the Chinese ground orchid. I think u have a follower in Tennessee who likes orchids. I have lived with bletilla for well over 25 years and they still amaze me. They bloom in May with actual orchid like flowers and truly are exotic.
Also look into mahonia soft caress. This is my first go with it but it looks like a short palm. Very tropical looking
Thank you. And I know my zone denial will get me in trouble. There is a great gardener in Pittsburgh that I follow on Facebook Zone Pushers who overwinters his tree fern outside. I am going to follow his method when I finally put it in the ground. And thanks for the information on the orchids!
Excellent video as allways! When does usually the first frost arrive at your place? By the way, would be interesting to see later how you prepare the musa basjoos for winter.
Thank you! First frost is usually in October but sometimes there can be an early one…
The Musa basjoos can definitely handle some frost because I cut them back, so I have some time with them. But I will definitely show my process
You need a huuuuuge garage! Beautiful garden. Do you have tropical hibiscus or desert roses, also?
I need a greenhouse! Oddly I don't have any tropical hibiscus or desert roses. Next year, I promise!
@@newyorktropicalgarden9364 I wait for it! :D Your property is on the westside of Hudson River, right?
@@zwicknagel yes