SarrCrazy wrote: ↑Wed Nov 08, 2023 3:00 am
Nice looking sarrs Jerry! Look really healthy. How cold does it get where you're at?
Its in my signature. Neg 5F. I bury some of my plants in a deep pile of leaves covered by a plastic tarp to keep the leaves dry. I made a wire mesh cage last year to protect my plants from rodents under the leaves. It worked.
I keep the S. purpurea and others in my unheated detached garage. They freeze, but survive.
Jerry Smith
Bloomingdale, NJ
45 inches (114 cm) rain equivalent per year, approx. evenly spread per month
2012 USDA Hardiness Zone 6b: -5F to OF (-20C to -18C) min.
SarrCrazy wrote: ↑Wed Nov 08, 2023 3:00 am
Nice looking sarrs Jerry! Look really healthy. How cold does it get where you're at?
Its in my signature. Neg 5F. I bury some of my plants in a deep pile of leaves covered by a plastic tarp to keep the leaves dry. I made a wire mesh cage last year to protect my plants from rodents under the leaves. It worked.
I keep the S. purpurea and others in my unheated detached garage. They freeze, but survive.
Purps are usually the most cold hardy of all sarrs. You should try a division outdoors this winter. I'm willing to bet it survives.
SarrCrazy wrote: ↑Wed Nov 08, 2023 5:36 amPurps are usually the most cold hardy of all sarrs. You should try a division outdoors this winter. I'm willing to bet it survives.
I have all of my plants in pots, no outdoor bog. I store all my S. psittacina, S. leucophylla, S. minor and hybrids of them under the leaf pile. The VFT go under there to. Some of the orchids go there as well. I have to get going on that for this year.
Jerry Smith
Bloomingdale, NJ
45 inches (114 cm) rain equivalent per year, approx. evenly spread per month
2012 USDA Hardiness Zone 6b: -5F to OF (-20C to -18C) min.
SarrCrazy wrote: ↑Wed Nov 08, 2023 5:36 amPurps are usually the most cold hardy of all sarrs. You should try a division outdoors this winter. I'm willing to bet it survives.
I have all of my plants in pots, no outdoor bog. I store all my S. psittacina, S. leucophylla, S. minor and hybrids of them under the leaf pile. The VFT go under there to. Some of the orchids go there as well. I have to get going on that for this year.
All of mine are in pots too. Doesn't get as cold as it gets there here but we drop into the mid teens and all of my sarrs do just fine. Purps I never worry about.
Jerry Smith
Bloomingdale, NJ
45 inches (114 cm) rain equivalent per year, approx. evenly spread per month
2012 USDA Hardiness Zone 6b: -5F to OF (-20C to -18C) min.
