With just one day left to Midsummer there is no doubt about the plants that have passed the winter and those that have not done so. Those who have not been knocked out yet, you do not wait for something more. Each year, emphasizes that with some plants and the one who has followed the blog for a while know that plant selection has become somewhat bolder with time and several readers have wondered what happened to some of the more daring initiatives. As I mentioned in a previous posts winter was pretty tough, with temperatures around 30 zero temperatures on a few occasions and it was a real ordeal for many plants.
So how was the outcome? It was both a few disappointments, but also several really fun surprises. As you know, I have two woodland gardens, a small home garden in a well-drained moraine soil with a really good microclimate in the top of a fairly long south-facing slope and so Putt Myra woodland garden which is dominated by a relatively heavy clay soil and covering part of a frost pocket. According to zonkartan we are just on the border between the cultivation zone IV and V, but the difference between the two places is very large.
How was it in Putt Myra forest garden:
Loser:
- The American pepper trees (Zanthoxylum americanum) froze everybody. Now they have a chance at a more favorable habitat.
- in hjärtnötnöt (Juglans ailanthifolia var. cordiformis) cultivar 'Kalmar' froze to death, one that stood on a more well-drained and protected place fared well.
- In the same bed where the pepper trees and walnut was also froze kurilerbambun (now kuriliensis) down, suggesting that there was something wrong with the bed generally.
- All but one Elaeagnus umbellata (Elaeagnus umbellata) froze partially down, but they have begun to push new shoots from the trunk base. Only those who do not froze managed to get ripe fruit in the last year.
- in hybridkastanj (I earlier called for Castanea mollissima, but that has now proven to be a seedling of Castanea dentata x mollissima from a Canadian parent trees) vole has killed, while the other made it through the winter without freezing damage.
- Blomsterkastanjen (Xanthoceras sorbifolium) who has been stamping ago 2013 has now given up.
- Several fence grapes (Vitis labrusca) has died, even though they should have passed the winter's low temperatures.
Winner:
- All hybridhasslar (Corylus colurnoides) purchased from Westergaard nursery has coped well.
- sugar maple (Acer saccharum) has passed its third winter without frost damage.
- Mull berries I planted last year (Morus alba and M. alba var. tatarica) passed the winter with only a few back frozen branch tips.
- Both oaks low tannin (Quercus macrocarpa and Q. bicolor) survived without winter damage, clearly surprising!
Even at home in the condominium forest garden became both a few disappointments and happy surprises:
disappointments:
- Snödroppsträdet (Halesia carolina) froze to death, despite the very good location.
- Both Helgoländer Wildkohl (Brassica oleracea subsp. oleracea) and sea kale (Crambe maritima) underlined with. Perennial cabbage is difficult to grow in this part of the country!
- Strandbetan (Beta vulgaris ssp. maritima) disappeared.
happy surprises:
- Vinhallon (Rubus phoenicolasius), which is actually considered to be hardy to Zone III fared well and have expanded considerably in the spring.
- Mispel (Mespilus germanica) passed the second winter without freezing damage and bloom nicely for the third time. It has given fruit every year.
- Himalayan may (Podophyllum I hexand) survived against all odds.
- Chinese angelica-tree (Aralia elata) coped well.
And what happens this year? Even this year, I sat down one and the other exciting that might not be considered to be hardy here on the border between the cultivation zone IV and V. I have invested considerably more in unusual perennial vegetables, for example, has planted many kinds of perennial cabbage, hoping to find someone who can do well here. If about a year, I will be able to tell you more about the outcome of this year's plantings!
It's very interesting to read about what you are testing for plants and especially who survive ! I have planted loquat this summer in zone 6 but it does not seem to get any further, there is probably something wrong with it.
Otherwise, echoes, tartarmullbär, skidhickory, kentuckykaffe, grape Zilga, sibiriskt korkträd, Elders, hazel, Manchurian walnut, caucasian vingnöt, mini kiwi fared well despite negative 35 grader. Several were admittedly very small and was partly covered with snow.
Robinia pseudoacacia is the only one that fared at all.
Very interesting results. I'm trying to grow myself in zone 6 (Sollefteå extracts) with mixed results. Suffering from heavy to work clay and unprecedented amounts of weeds.
Where in the country are your plantations Dalle?
What interesting work you do, and share your!
Tack!
cool results! Did absolutely not the honeymoon quarks would survive as far north. May well find a moderately favorable place to plant a Quercus bicolor, I guess.