Frozen tropical garden, which plants are hardy enough & lessons for next summer.
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Early winter has been particularly harsh in my tropical style garden this year, with temperatures as low as -5°C/-23°F for up to 10 days in a row. This is the coldest conditions my tropical style garden has ever experienced and it will be a real test for some of the tropical plants that I grow. In this video I give an honest look around my garden and share which tropical style plants have proven hardy enough to survive this severe cold weather which have succumbed to the cold. As I walk around my frozen tropical style garden I also share lessons that I have learnt from these hard frosts it will help me plant more successfully next year.
Tropical style gardens can be grown anywhere in the world, you just have to find the right plants for the right place. The challenge in this unpredictable climate is defined which plants are best for your garden to give you a tropical style all year round. I watching this video I hope that you'll find which plants might be hardy enough to provide lush green foliage all year round structure in your tropical garden.
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Very timely video. You mentioned schefflera taiwaniana. Yes, if the crown of the plant gets frosted and it dies, it will regrow from lower down the stem. It happened to mine in 2010, another very cold winter. I have to say that the plant benefitted from it. Instead of one stem, it now has 3. Much bushier and more substantial plant.
Very good to hear, thanks for sharing your experience 😁👍🪴
Nice one that’s cheered me up just noticed the crown on my taiwaniana has gone black and soft so fingers crossed. Green fingers has gone the same so hopefully they’ll both come back and bush out. Cheers for the info.
Missed seeing this when it came out. Enjoying watching this as I’m in Pensacola Fl panhandle and as I write we have had temps last night -4C up to 2 C today and now tonight and tomorrow night back down to -5C with temps only about 2-3 C for a few hours Saturday & Sunday. I covered or brought in a lot of plants I wrapped my bananas in frost cloth then bubble wrap all the way to the crown. All fatsias doing great. I left a bird of paradise against a wall unprotected to see how it would do. I als left my 2 Chinese fan palms unprotected to see how they do. I also have a 6’ tall philodendron sellonum unexposed and it’s doing ok so far. I brought in my one schefferla which was in a large pot into the garage. Can’t wait to see how yours will bounce back. We go back to temps in 20-23 C early next week
I've lost quite a few plants, as many of us did. The cold stayed around for a little too long. I'll share another update soon 😁
@@GrowParadise hood some of them will comeback and not a total loss
Interesting video! That Musa basjoo will be perfectly fine, they are super common plants here in Virginia, USA and every winter they freeze down and come right back in the spring.
Thats great to know, thanks for watching 👍
I Just started collecting damaged greenhouse frame piping that people were throwing away and made individual frames for each plant and covered the frames with one or two layers of greenhouse plastic to create a protective barrier for each plant.
Really interesting, thanks Craig. Hopefully you can do a direct follow up featuring all the same plants in spring to see how’s things fared.
Great idea, I will set a reminder for myself now 😁
Aeonium spathulatum survived -7 for me, all rosettes survived, Aeonium simsii survived too with half of rosettes burned off. I think those two species are good choices for UK cultivation year-round.
Great tips, thanks for sharing your knowledge 😁👍
Hi, I'm in US Zone 9a which I believe is about the same as you. Over Christmas, we had 3 nights that went down to 24°F/4.4°C. During the the days it got to the mid 40s/7.2. I never when through 3 nights in a row of that kind of of cold before.
I love hibiscus plants and mine got hit hard. Down by trunk they are still green (no green on the branches). Should I dig them up and try to save them on a heat mat and grow lights until spring?
It massively depends on the species of Hibiscus that you are growing. Some of cold tolerant, others not at all. If it is a tender type that you are growing you could try to rescue them on a heat matt like you suggested 😀👍 Let me know how it goes.
Here, south of Atlanta, will get almost minus 10 Celsius on Friday. I will cover my plants with old bed sheets. A Sago is in a Little greenhouse , I will be putting incandescent lights around it . And then the „wait and See game“ start. 😅
How did you get on?
Don't know how I missed this video! Just noticed I hadn't watched it, thanks for the cold garden tour Craig 🙂
No problem, glad it's a bit warmer out there now 😁❄️
My Woodwardia Radicans always dies back in winter yet she regrows in spring. In south london here
That is good to know, thanks 😁👍
I have both Billbergia nutans and Nidularium billbergioides bromeliads planted outside in half round hanging baskets, screwed to a shed wall. Both seem to be coping ok so far, and we have been down to -9C this week. Will be interesting to see if they make it through to spring.
Very interesting! Would love for you to keep me updated 👍😁
I’ve had billbergia nutans in the ground for years and even -10 hasn’t harmed it. Just make sure there is no water in the cups that can freeze.
Yeah mate, we got a -7 in Basingstoke! Damn 🥶 Lets see how the palms go 🤞🏼
🤞🤞🤞🤞 I don't grow any palms so keep me updated.
Amazing it gets that cold down on the south coast.
Very rarely, but it does occasionally ❄️
Hi Craig what's the plant at the beginning with the purple cones?
Hi, that is my Rhus typhina. A great tree and the female plants hold the red fruiting structures all winter long.
Thanks I've got one didn't no what it was called great 👍
The majority of my plants are deciduous, I do have some Evergreen / Hardy plants for winter interest. I have a great western Redwood looming over my garden so I have a lot of Fronds to rake up in the spring. but I do it, then put down some compost, and wait for the explosion of life! 🌱🌿🌻
That's the joy of it right?! It's always changing with the seasons 🌴❄️☀️
Since we use the Imperial. Measurements in the US, I will note that -5C is not -23F. It is 23F. - God Save The King. (My tropical gardens are on the one Beach peninsulain Washington State, and a desert tropical garden in southern Arizona).
I just checked the video again, it doesn't say -23F. You made me panic!
Another brilliant clip🥇🌿💚 🌿Thanks Craig! You have given me faith for my garden this winter! 🌟
Thanks as always Jade 👍
We will have to start a "bud watch" to check on what's survived 👍🏽 and what's succumbed, wrapped or left unprotected.
Bud watch, love it 😁
Thanks Craig enjoyed that
Totally agree about finding out where the warmer areas are
I’m in Salford it’s been -8 but most things got through - except my echiums
Not really an issue 👍🏼
Good to know, Echiums are fairly easy to replace. Keep me updated 👍
Nice one Craig. Weve gone down to -6.6 so far. Experiments here too as i got suprised a little: i left my 2 massive 4m tall Washingtonia out against the southfacing wall.. it will get 6 nights of -3 to -6....we'll see.
Wow, that is cold. Fingers crossed for you 🤞
Thanks for this video, it’s just what I needed, a tropical style garden newby I’m feeling a little bit more positive and will have to wait and see the consequences of -8c
Thats good to hear, it's all a constant learning journey. Thanks for watching 👍
Thanks for the intetesting update. The billbergia will probably be fine. Mine has survived five usda 8b pacific notthwest winters in a container.
Fantastic, thanks for letting me know 👍😁
I love the updates from your garden! I’m planning on getting a couple more evergreen plants into my garden. Most everything I have are deciduous, so in winter you can’t even imagine how tropical and lush it looks in summer.
I think a balance can be nice, too many evergreens and you don't get to enjoy the seasonal changes. 🙂
Fascinating video. Thank you, good luck, and looking forward to seeing your garden in the spring!
Thanks, me too 😁🌱🪴🌴
Real Frozen damage will be visible with the first nice weather. Now you can’t detect who deep
has penetrated
Just as I say in the video, we'll see what happens when the warmer weather arrives 😁❄️
I’ve recently got hold of a Tetrapanex and wow what a plant it is when it grows massive leaves. At the minute it’s in my insulated shed by the window and the leaves have dropped because it still can get to -1,2 in the shed. I thought you had one in your Garden and I would have loved to see how that gets on outside in the winter.
I dug mine up 3 years ago, my small garden just doesn't have the space for those massive leaves. The often reshoot from the roots if the top gets damaged 👍😁
I live in USA in NC. It’s up in the mountains so we get plenty of cold weather here, but it’s similar zone to UK if not a touch colder.
I have a huge t-Rex in my garden and it survived several winters now. It also puts out pups from the roots all over, so it’s has a pretty strong survival instinct I’d say.
We had temps down to 0 F (-18C) now over Xmas, so we’ll see how the garden faired from that.
So far I’ve scraped the bark a bit on my two big fig trees and they’re green.
I also saw that 3 out of 4 small fatsia seem to have survived, even if they’ll loose most of their leaves. They are all growing unprotected in the garden.
Only protection they get are from falling leaves of my giant old oak tree.
Do you have a log fern and if so has it survived the cold?
Great video and interesting info
R les
Not in my garden, but I will probably feature some from a neighbours garden soon 👍
Great video, it’s helped me to think to be a bit more positive about my garden
Great to hear!
If you had -5°C , here btxw -8-9. then your basjo will soon fall over. It always looks like nothing is going on in the stem but it is frozen and done. If i am wrong, it would be a miracle as mine froze previous season, with a little protection at minus 4 . Tropical and other plants show you the damage after the winter not during sadly enough.
Exactly as I say in the video, we'll have to wait for warmer weather and see. The area around the stem is much warmer than the ambient temp in my garden, thats the microclimate I was talking about. It's been fine down to -4°C last winter in that spot. We'll see though, plants never read the rule books! 😁🤞🌴
@@GrowParadise i know lol i still have a tetrapanax f.e. that is only 40cm high and it is 7 years old.
-18 here today. wish i could grow these things
Wow! Houseplants?
i do have a lot of houseplants