Dwarf camellia for zone 6?
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Comments (12)Hi Rokal, How did you overwintered dwarf orinoco? Noticed picture of fruiting tree was on October 27. Kind a late for that. Did you succeed ripening fruit back then? I live in Queens (zone 7b) and been growing all kind of bananas and other tropicals for past 5 years. Usually I overwinter bananas in indoor greenhouse under grow lights but they got to get incredibly huge and overgrown. Last winter tried to make them go dormant and store barerooted in the basement. It didn't work for they freeze too much at the first hard frost while being dig up, potted up and stored in unheard greenhouse and later eventually rotted while Musa Basjoo did pretty well as I left them in the ground and dig up after the frost. Overwintered them bareroot in peat moss and wrapped in the burlap and this spring all of them sprouted new shoots thought old pseudostems showed no signs of life. Happy to hear there are more banana growers around New York City:)...See Morecamellia for zone 6
Comments (6)Here are some sites I found helpful in my search for "cold-hardy" camellias for my southern Ohio garden. This is a trusted mail-order source: http://www.camforest.com/camellia.htm These are some other helpful sites: http://www.cspv.org/suggestd.htm http://www.chesapeakehome.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?pnpID=988&NewsID=623552&CategoryID=17983&show=localnews&om=3 http://www.usna.usda.gov/Newintro/camelli1.html http://www.cspv.org/ackerman.htm http://www.camellia.gulfcoast-gardening.com/selection/coldhardy.htm The "bible" for raising cold hardy camellias comes from Dr. Ackerman. A new edition will be available in April. http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Camellia-Belt-Propagating-Cold-Hardy/dp/1883052521/ref=sr_1_3/002-7252585-6966420?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1175107727&sr=1-3 I hope this will be of some help. Here is a link that might be useful: Ackerman Cold Hardy Camellias...See Moredwarf evergreens for attic-level deck in zone 6a
Comments (10)Weight shouldn't be a huge issue; the previous owners had a hot tub up there. I doubt the trees plus dirt - even when recently watered - would be more weight than a hottub full of water. It took up about 1/3 of the space on the deck. Does sound like lots of dwarf trees are wider than tall. I presume that one can prune in order to reduce this, though. I believe that the reason we want trees up there is for wind blocking and privacy, as well as pretty. I will double-check, though! I actually wonder if it might be better to look at some other type of plant for wind/privacy/pretty up there, upon reflection. I know we also wanted to avoid plants that would drop their leaves all over everything come winter. We were in fact thinking cheap conifers this year; probably from Home Depot. Does make sense to try that first, especially since we're not sure if they'd make it through the winter! Dwarf alberta spruce may be one of the ones we were looking at at Home Depot; can't recall. I was actually kind of thinking that this was very similar to bonsai. When I was first investigating, before posting here, I was following the many links relating to trees in containers, which led to soil drainage and the other related posts by Al throughout this site. I haven't yet gotten the courage to try to _find_ the necessary ingredients, though. Bonsai mix would probably be easier to find! Foam insulated planters makes complete sense! I wasn't sure what, but figured that there must be some way to help improve the chances for a plant to survive. :) I figured as far as the snow and the mulch, in terms of reducing heat and moisture loss. Garden: yes, well-established. There's two conifers that I can think of offhand, both the same type. I don't know what they are, but they have yellow-green, fairly short needles, and are soft to touch and kind of... droopy? Not terribly helpful, I know. :) Being well-established, I don't yet know where we might be willing/interested in putting in trees that outgrow their pots. As such, I was hoping to not presume that we would be able to do that. Overwintering in the ground might... actually be possible. Even if we don't leave them there, that does sound potentially work-able! Size, I think probably 4-6' or so. Guessing. I really need to go ping my housemates and get more details, clearly. Thank you all! This is certainly giving me lots of think about, as well as specific ideas of what to try. :) Suzanne...See MoreLooking for a dwarf tree for complete SHADE - zone 6
Comments (6)4' is not a tree!! In fact, most shrubs will exceed 4' in time. Check out what shade shrubs might do well in your location - hydrangeas, rhododendrons, pieris, Japanese holly, clethra, leucothoe, etc. but be aware that pruning to maintain desired size may be necessary and that flowering shrubs - even very shade tolerant ones - tend not to bloom very freely in heavy shade. If you are set on a tree, look at dwarf Japanese maples, especially the weeping laceleaf varieties. Depending on specific cultivar and graft location, these too will very often exceed 4' and are not nearly as tolerant of pruning for size control as are most shrubs....See Moreken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
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