Mike,

everything in the cactus garden will stay out all winter. The one hitch is that I doubt the large prickly pear has much chance of survival. It's an opuntia from santa fe. I looked it up and it is supposedly hardy only to zone 7a. I'm still going to leave it out and see what happens. As far as the yucca rostrata, a. parryi, hesperaloe, claret cup, and a few other cacti those stayed outside all winter with no problem (although we never hit 0 F this past winter). I just covered them with a clear storage container.

The papaya will probably stay outside all winter but I'm only sending it to its death. It requires too much sun and I don't have enough direct sunlight in my house to keep messing with it. Unless I feel sorry for it and dig it up and ask my parents to watch it for the winter. They have a large sunroom.

Great shots, especially the cacti!

very nice