DarkNight
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Joined: May 16, 2015
Last seen: Nov 7, 2017
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RE: Photos of 21 broadleaf evergreens for 5a/b garden

Very impressive indeed. Do you cover it with something or just mulch it? A little bit of a wheat straw and some polyethylene above the straw. A snow ...

10 years ago
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RE: Photos of 21 broadleaf evergreens for 5a/b garden

What kind of protection that would be form Aucuba? Heavy mulching? Or full cover? Did you loose it because of sun burns (frozen soil+sun), drying wind...

10 years ago
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RE: Photos of 21 broadleaf evergreens for 5a/b garden

They look great! At my Oregon place, all easy. In Oklahoma, most of those do fine. I have lost Aucuba before when not protected. What kind of protect...

10 years ago
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RE: Finnish palms :)

Auracaria still alive?

10 years ago
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RE: Photos of 21 broadleaf evergreens for 5a/b garden

Cool! What's about Mahonia eurybracteata 'Soft Caress'? How many winters outside? First winter.I hesitated buying it. It had autumn sales price at EU...

10 years ago
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RE: My best yucca rostrata

Nice.Your winters are harsh. Any other exotic winter green species you've got?

10 years ago
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RE: elephant's ear at zone 5 (close to zone 4)

Cold Finland is very similar to my climate (Zone 4), but I imagine that you lack summer heat? Southern Finland is similar to Riga.Cold winters and coo...

10 years ago
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RE: Photos of 21 broadleaf evergreens for 5a/b garden

This will be the first year for Acuba Japonica. I read good reviews/reports about its hardiness and ordered three from Netherlands.Cherry laurel Otto ...

10 years ago
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RE: Zone 5 Hardy Bamboo

thx, guys, I'll try to order some seeds online, there is limited supply of bamboo varieties around here.

10 years ago
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RE: Zone 5 Hardy Bamboo

I planted P. nuda last summer. Gave it no mulch this winter or any other protection. It came back just fine here in zone 5b :). Winter low was -16F...

10 years ago
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RE: Another very cold hardy evergreen - please help ID

I've found out in Dave's Garden:Viburnum davidii It is says Zone 8a :D, I'm in 5b, sometimes 5a or can be down to 4b very rarely.Still, this Vibrunum ...

10 years ago
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RE: Zone 5 Hardy Bamboo

First time I tred P. bissetti it died completely after -24C... Stupid thing was supposed to be among the hardiest of the Phyllostachys.How old is this...

10 years ago
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RE: Zone 4 winter is over!

What's going on in your garden now? Can you post some pics?

10 years ago
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