Growing Wisteria in Zone 4
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Comments (11)Great thread, I love out-of-zone plantings! Can a windmill palm really be grown in zone 3 or 4, even with generous winter protection? That would be great, but is seems way out of zone here in the Cdn prairies. I checked out the website, and I've seen them growing on the west coast of Canada (pic included below), but that's a very mild climate, like zone 8 or thereabouts. Catalpa seem reasonably hardy for prairie gardeners looking to test the limits. I've got a small one (two feet high and several years old) growing in my increasingly shady back garden here in Edmonton. It's still very small and is sheltered from winter winds by a nearby fence, but it doesn't seem to have suffered much winterkill during the past couple of winters (but they weren't harsh winters). Ginkos are great... I had a small one but it didn't make it past it's first year in Edmonton's suburbs, yet I know of one on the University grounds downtown that has survived at least 10 years. Actually, I haven't seen that tree in about 10 years, so I really need to locate it again and see if it is still doing okay. I used to also watch a ginko growing in Drumheller, Alberta, near the Red Deer River (pic included below) -- last I saw it was small but healthy, but I haven't checked it out for the past decade so I really need to take another look. My sugar maple is about 12 feet high, growing more as a bush than a tree. It is maybe 10-12 years old, and has a fairly thick trunk. It can winterkill quite severely, but has been doing pretty well the past 5 years or more. I have a butternut tree roughly 12-15 feet tall, at least 10 years old, and it has produced nuts for the past several years. My grapes (Valiant) produced heavily this fall, and the wine from them is now bottled. Pears (Ure) are usually ignored when they ripen, but they are tasty and the tree has been growing vigorously for 15 years. Magnolia and Northern lights azalea survived several winters but seemed to get increasingly smaller each year, eventually discarded. Forsythia did great in a mild winter, but crappy otherwise, and were a pain to chop out, including all the sucker-plants. Well, that's all my info on out-of-zone plants. If I can actually grow palms here in zone 3, please let me know! Ginko growing in Drumeller, Alberta - 5 to 6 feet tall, healthy but with some winterkill of top branches Windmill palm growing in a garden on the Sunshine Coast, north of Vancouver, British Columbia....See MoreThis year's 'Blue Moon' Wisteria pics, zone 4
Comments (0)'Blue Moon' is a great American Wisteria. These pictures were taken in June, but it is blooming again in August!...See MorePics of Blue Moon wisteria, zone 4
Comments (16)nice pics.now i want one lol. I will post looking for tip cuttings of this variety myself to try and save money.i want to tree form it for my new front yard but youre vine is lovely also.i had a chinese one growing at my old home tho it was a small one and hadnt grown much yet when we moved.my new yards are tiny compared so a tree form american variety would probably be best.i lost my garden when we moved last spring into a beautiful brick cottage type house that my husbands grandma left him and this would be perfect for the focus of my brand new garden im planning.my new house has only a few old neglected shrubs so i want to start getting some ideas for plants that would suit this style of home because i sure miss my massive yard and many many blooming plants that i had to leave behind.i was supposed to bring my plants id sold plants on ebay for years and had probably thousands of different plants and bulbs in that yard and wanted to dig out beds here last summer and move the gardens in fall. i was attacked by a pit bull last july and was hospitalised with staph infection so am lucky to have survived . during all of that my old house sold and someone else now has all of my plants. :( thx for the info on this because ive been looking all over for pics of an actual plant and info on its scent .i didnt want the variety that smells like cat pee when it blooms ..spring hill is having a sale for $20 in free plants if you pay ship and blue moon is $19.99 so if i cant find someone w tip cuttings i may buy it but if i can save the $10 shipping by getting cuttings id be so happy....See Morefast growing evergreen zone 4
Comments (0)I need a fast growing evergreen for privacy in a spot that get about 1.5 hrs direct sun early morning then again late afternoon. It's a fairly bright area however. Zone 4...See More- 18 years ago
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