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Friday, January 9, 2009
my garden in winter
At the moment we have Siberian temperatures. Not so much in my area; and I am grateful for it. In other areas of Central Europe we have the coldest winter in 100 years.
It is nice to see the development of your very beautiful hollowed Acer campestre since you last posted on it 11 months ago (albeit shrouded in snow), this tree is quite an inspiration to me.Acer campestre is one of my favorite species (being Britain's only native Acer) and this tree promises to look trully stunning in just a few years time.
What sort of night time temperatures are you having there? The coldest we have experienced in Bristol (SW England) is -7.5C but I'm sure it is much colder with you, very beautiful though.
-27.5°C is colder than it has ever been recorded in England; -26.1°C, 10 January, 1982 (Shropshire). I assume that these sort of extreme temperatures could cause severe damage to some trees, though assumably not those adapted to the mountains such as your larch and spruce.
I can well understand that Walter, not having a green house in my small garden I get a little nervous about some of my trees durring particularly cold weather, I can't offer much protection to the more vunerable trees. With temperatures into the minus twentys I would dispair!
At the end of march last spring we had a coldspell of - 17 celsius where I live in the south east of Norway, (that very unusuall even for Norway) I had all my native trees outside, we had no snow to protect them from the cold and none of them suffered any damage, pines and spruces will be fine even if its below - 20 degrees for prolonged periodes during winter as long as they are completly dormant.
8 comments:
Dear Walter,
It is nice to see the development of your very beautiful hollowed Acer campestre since you last posted on it 11 months ago (albeit shrouded in snow), this tree is quite an inspiration to me.Acer campestre is one of my favorite species (being Britain's only native Acer) and this tree promises to look trully stunning in just a few years time.
What sort of night time temperatures are you having there? The coldest we have experienced in Bristol (SW England) is -7.5C but I'm sure it is much colder with you, very beautiful though.
Regards,
Matt
Matt, in my garden I have around -10°C during the night. but in East Germany they ahve -27.5°C and even lower!
Walter
-27.5°C is colder than it has ever been recorded in England; -26.1°C, 10 January, 1982 (Shropshire). I assume that these sort of extreme temperatures could cause severe damage to some trees, though assumably not those adapted to the mountains such as your larch and spruce.
Matt,
I absolutely would not want to try out whether these temperatures are still save.
Walter
I can well understand that Walter, not having a green house in my small garden I get a little nervous about some of my trees durring particularly cold weather, I can't offer much protection to the more vunerable trees. With temperatures into the minus twentys I would dispair!
Regards,
Matt
Walter
How many pots will you lose to cracking over the winter?
Elroy
Ottawa, Canada
Elroy,
none or only a couple of very chaep ones. Good pots don't crack under these circumstances. Trust me, I am doing this since 30 years.
Walter
At the end of march last spring we had a coldspell of - 17 celsius where I live in the south east of Norway, (that very unusuall even for Norway) I had all my native trees outside, we had no snow to protect them from the cold and none of them suffered any damage, pines and spruces will be fine even if its below - 20 degrees for prolonged periodes during winter as long as they are completly dormant.
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