Does anybody grow roses in a frost-free climate?
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Comments (4)For someone close to your zone, I'm wondering if you might be safer looking at grafted for this one. I've tried two or three times to grow this one own-root and it has yet to come back from the winters for me. I think most of the tries have been from a source with smaller bands than average, so I'll probably try again one of these days from somewhere else. If Michael could grow his own root, then you should be fine in your zone. It may just be that mine never got established. I did enjoy the big fluffy blooms, at least those that I saw in the first year. Cynthia...See MoreDoes anybody grow tree peonies?
Comments (12)It's very important to think long and hard before selecting a planting site for tree peonies. As I once learned too late, they greatly resent being transplanted after they've settled in and have developed a good root system. Morevover, they are exceeding long-lived plants, so the location you select should be satisfactory for you and the plant for as long as you tend your garden. My personal preference is to showcase them in a location where they can be viewed from more than one side, and where the roots are as free as possible from competition with other plants. Unless growing techniques have changed during the last few years, the most beautiful hybrid tree peonies are grafted onto rootstocks that are much sturdier than those they produce on their own. I would assume that any seedlings produced by a grafted plant would not be as vigorous as the parent. They're wonderful plants and well worth having even tho the bloom season comes and goes pretty quickly. I hope you decide to add them to your garden . . ....See MorePlatyceriums for a cool, but frost-free climate?
Comments (13)Hi Tim, My growing area is tiny, but surrounded by walls, trees, etc., and packed with plants. I don't get full sun anywhere, and I assume the worst of the wind is blocked. Our typical wind situation, besides storms in winter, is a strong breeze that picks up in late afternoon, particularly in the warmer part of the year. I think it cools things down a bit, but usually the fog does not blow in with it. I'm in a very sunny climate, even if I don't personally get that much sun. With all my plants packed into a small area, I'm sure that must raise the humidity a bit as well. I suspect the problems here are the 5 or 10 very warm, dry days a year, along with a couple months with very cool days (50s F). Below is a link to our weather for the past year. It's not a normal year, since we usually get about 25 inches of rain, almost all in November through March. I'm not sure their precipitation numbers are complete. It also starts with the severe freeze exactly a year ago, which a lot of people say was the worst since 1990 ("the freeze of the century"). I'm slightly less cold than the location below, which is our airport, a mile and a half away. Here is a link that might be useful: Last years weather, San Carlos Airport...See MoreRaising Eucalyptus deglupta in a cool frost-free (sub)tropical climate
Comments (22)Update: Eucalyptus deglupta that I raised several dozen of and only this past winter I planted 6 of them into the ground at an elevation of around 150 m above sea level, into a poor "soil". They did not grow too large in their pots over the past 5 years. After clearing an acre or so of shrubby woods with an excavator I was struggling to find some soil to purchase in order to cover the field. The soil I covered it with by just a barely a foot or so is very poor and has a lot of volcanic "gravel" in it mostly, stones and clay. It is dug up from down deep so it has got no organic matter yet. Finally the 6 x "Arcoiris" (Rainbow Eucalyptus) are in the ground and are slowly growing. Some showing deep, red foliage and some green foliage. The bark is still mostly light brown with some opened up patches of light green. They should show more colour when the trunks grow to at least 10-15 cm thickness if they will have tropicals colours here at all. Will see how their bark will look after several more years, whether all brownish and light green or will show some more tropical colours such as orange, red and especially blue. I will post an update then and now here are some photos of the pot-grown ones after 5 years (they grow very slowly in the pots): Anyone growing these in Portugal or Spain please post up close photos of the bark of larger E.d. (Eucalypto arcoiris) trees if possible....See Moreroseblush1
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