Growing mangoes in Seattle area
NormKeegel
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Growing Ficus religiosa in costal Seattle area
Comments (3)I wouldn't plant any of those in the ground, except maybe the bay laurel. I've had one in a pot for years now, in Olympia, which is a bit colder than Seattle. But, it gets shoved into a slightly sheltered corner in the winter, and being in a pot it's not subjected to the waterlogging that plants in the ground get in our cold wet winters. Of citrus, grapefruit is much more frost tender than oranges or lemons. Lemons are quite frost hardy actually, but still not enough to plant in the ground up here. They need to come inside in the winter. Grapefruit need a LOT of heat, much more than Seattle will give. I don't know much about the kaffir lime. Coffee can take a very light frost, but we get actual hard freezes here. It went down to 9 degrees at my house two different nights in late December, and that's not terribly unusual. Our ground was frozen hard when it started to snow. I got over a foot of snow, and there was enough snow on the ground to make the roads impassible to my ordinary little car for 10 days. The snow is gone, but now the soil is waterlogged, and very cold. Most of the plants on your list won't take that. Ficus religiosa is just plain tropical. It will not tolerate frost. I'd leave them behind. You can buy the bay laurel at any nursery up here. You can buy citrus and coffee for houseplants as well. I know that Buddhist temples like to have a Ficus religiosa planted on the grounds, but I don't know what temples in cold areas do about that. There's one in town but I've never gone there to check it out....See MorePersimmon trees in Seattle area
Comments (12)Persimmons do very well here. As bboy states, most local retail nurseries sell them. The issue is with getting them to ripen properly, not always a guarantee in our cool summers. Much like figs in that regard.......a semi-protected, heat reflective location is best. Fuyu is the most commonly sold type but there are varieties of Fuyu that ripen earlier than others. Look for Matsumoto or Jiro. ps. Valley Nursery in Poulsbo will be carrying Jiro......stock should be up to proper levels mid-March or so....See MoreCan you grow butternut squash in the Seattle area?
Comments (4)Even in the warmer climate of Portland, butternut squash do not ripen until mid-September to early October--even the smaller, fewer-days-to-harvest varieties require patience. An initial shelter may help--once blooming, the squash need to be visited by bees. If you can get some squash to enlarge on your vines, trim off the remainder and late blooms, making the plant focus on the viable squash. The squash need to be fully sized by Labor Day or it will be too late. Expect considerable mildew on the foliage....See MoreSuggustions for reddish leafed banana hardy in Seattle area?
Comments (4)Even in the few z9 locations in this area, this plant will not survive long term Full blown USDA 9 being present here debatable, hence such failures. Last time I looked record lows north of Coos Bay were all below 10 degrees F, with long term weather records expected to be the basis for Sunset mapping everything north of Gold Beach Sunset 5 or lower. Garden centers here sell the Musa lasiocarpa, I bought one on clearance in a 4 inch pot and planted it here last year. It grew significantly larger during the summer, I didn't think to protect it when the cold came and don't actually know what it looks like now. The 2014 edition of The Hillier Manual of Trees & Shrubs (Hillier Nurseries and The Royal Horticultural Society) says about this one Will survive outdoors, ideally with protection, in the mildest parts of the British Isles but in most places best overwintered in frost-free conditions so it wouldn't surprise me if mine is now a dead heap. Due to warming ocean currents the "mildest parts of the British Isles" actually go up as high as USDA 11 in the most southwestern islands (with - unlike here - Santa Barbara, CA style plantings long being present there, serving as proof). Claims of USDA 7 originating back East may be based on better results in hot summer climates. And probably also the prevailing misinterpretation of USDA Hardiness Zones, with it likely having been observed that the plant fails at 10 degrees F, is therefore "Hardy to USDA 7 (average annual minimum temperature 0 to 10 degrees F)"....See MoreDzitmoidonc
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