Citrus ichangensis itself

(if you're curious, the one in the background in Yuzu)

My US897's survived and grew after hitting 0F under windy conditions of 15 mph winds with gusts to 35. I can't say whether the fruit is worth a hoot. No production yet

I'm also experimenting with special cold hardy gardenia hybrids and banana species in the Seattle area.

This one was grown from seed and came from a hybrid between Musa sikkimensis and an edible banana.

This one is a tiny Musa thomsonii seedling

This species is considered "edible", despite poor flesh to seed ratio. It might be hardy to zone 8b, but there was a report from North Carolina that this species survived on the border of zone 8a/7b without mulching, and regrew from the ground.

In case you're wondering, Yuzu can survive a cold winter in the Seattle area unprotected, but suffers some damage. The tree will be able to keep some of its leaves, maybe about half, depending on if it is located in a warm spot. It won't start growing until about the very end of May.

Seattle is pretty far north in latitude but only zone 8a, so the winter temperatures don't get too extremely cold, though the winters are long (almost feels like half the year). My little Yuzu tree was completely blanketed in snow.

A Yuzu-Clementine hybrid managed to survive but suffered some substantial damage and has still not managed to leaf out. It only managed to send out a tiny little single deformed leaflet after July 4, which doesn't look very well right now. The parts of the little tree which are not dead and grey have now turned a healthy live green color, it's just no leaves.

I also planted numerous different varieties of exhibition variety chrysanthemums here to see if any could survive the winter, and the only one that has done well is 'Heather James'.

This forum site is really messed up. The last 6 posts (not counting the opening post) appear to be in reverse order from the order in which they were posted.

The post about the Citrus ichangensis and Poncirus trifoliata hybrid was the first post made after the opening post.

Unless the company running this site bothers fixing it, people are going to flee from here in droves.

Sometimes when I post a picture from thumbnail view I realize its not the one I wanted, it is IMPOSSIBLE as far as I can see to simply delete a proposed pic for posting, unless I'm missing something, really half ass

I just posted see above and it moved to the top of the list?!?