just few more pics from croatia,before i go to sleep 8)

i think this is a good reason to spend your hollydays here 😀
regards

Hi Damir,

I may have to try one of those cupressus sempervirens pyramidalis! I like it alot. What is the typical coldest day time high temperatures you get?

Damir,
Showed your pictures to my husband, who travelled extensively in Europe (a long time ago.)
He smiled and said "ah yes, that beautiful city of Dubrovnik...I was there for 3 weeks"
He loved his visit and said the people were so friendly; he said the water temperature was the same as the air temperature at the beach mid-August.

Thank you!
Barb

Hi Damir,

I may have to try one of those cupressus sempervirens pyramidalis! I like it alot. What is the typical coldest day time high temperatures you get?

you should try to plant cupressus s.p. lowest temp here in winter was -25C few years ago,regulary it goes to -17,maybe -20. that -25,was just for one morning around xmass time. this year is not the case. lowest temp this year was -13C one morning. few days -10. mostly around -5 to -8C. this year even my cidp survived,good wrapped,not heated,with some leaf damages,but central spear looks green like in summer time.
we have hot summers, to 35C, so most of exotics can recover after/if there was some damage. frost free march/april to october/november. only problem is that we have lot of rain,sometimes snow in winter so it could be difficult for species that do not tolerate cold/wet conditions.

Damir,
Showed your pictures to my husband, who travelled extensively in Europe (a long time ago.)
He smiled and said "ah yes, that beautiful city of Dubrovnik...I was there for 3 weeks"
He loved his visit and said the people were so friendly; he said the water temperature was the same as the air temperature at the beach mid-August.

Thank you!
Barb

thanks! dubrovnik is most popular with tourists,but i think that all other citys are same the beautiful. i'll make some colection of few city's pisc and post it here. have you heard for the film "wow croatia"? it won emmy award last year. here is link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45oXdB_Kl3w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71xJhNz5a8g&feature=related

need to see this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-9O3_ZEGpU&feature=related

😀 😀 😀

Hi Damir,

your climate sounds similar to mine. We receive about 4 inches (10cm) of precipitation every month of the year.

maybe. but we dont have much rain in summer,just in june. july and august are mostly dry.

some pics from my garden this winter

Damir, thank you very much for posting those outstanding videos. No wonder they won awards!
Magnificent!
Tour guides did such a good job of explaining culture and history, wonderful to learn more about it.

Rich history from Roman times and such beautiful architecture!

That's what's missing in most of North America (obviously because we live in a young continent).
Seems in my town (and many others) the oldest building is a Midas Muffler Shop 😥
I marvel at the work the stonemasons did, the cobbled streets are so beautiful compared to our ugly asphalt roads and concrete driveways.

Thank you also for your winter plant pictures!

Wonderful way to start my day... 😀
Barb

Hi Damir,

nice snowy/frosty plants. Do you protect the palms in winter?

Hi Barb,

Too funny with Midas Muffler! Around here Pizza Hut's still have the original architecture from the 70's.

Thanks for posting the vids. WOW!

thanks!

usually i do wrapp the trachy and cover it with nylon. this year it wasnt too cold for it,even it has some leaf damage now. but it is important that plant dosent die. i cut all burned leaves in spring, and it recovers. cidp is first year in ground,it was wrapped all the time,till 10 days ago when temps began ti rise,and i keep it unwrapped and open now, as long as it will be good weather. if it gets worse,ill wrapp it again.

some pics few years ago, summer,croatia , makarska