After having planted hundreds of trees in the Putt Myra woodland garden, I have observed that small trees generally have better than larger trees that I bought especially during the first years of the establishment. The small trees survived drought, survived vole infestation when the big trees tvärdog and many have now grown on trees […]
The previous posts about the hardiness has mainly woody plants, thus tree, shrubs and half-shrubs. Herbaceous plants have chosen very different strategies than woody plants to survive the cold season. Trees and shrubs have aboveground plant parts must be able to withstand wind and cold without protective cover in order to survive the winter. […]
Second half of March, When the plants' rest period draws to a close, is a good time to take stock of how the over-wintering of trees and bushes in the forest garden has passed. Then it is usually easy to see which branches which have passed the winter and those that have not done so. In the first post of this series […]
In mid-January, it was for the first time in four years really cold in Putt Myra forest garden, with temperatures down to -30 ° C. For many of the more sensitive plants we've planted - such as walnuts, chestnuts and Korean silver bushes - was the first real cold snap. It is still too early to see if […]
