In the past, I’ve tried temporarily planting my homeless plants in the back of the garden, but I tend to forget what’s there. A couple weeks ago, in my big weed clean up, I found this bay laurel hiding behind a euphorbia volunteer. I had assumed it died a couple years ago, but it’s still [...]
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My banana winterizing attempts have officially failed. I tried a shortcut of one large insulating cage for a clump of bananas, rather than following instructions, and making individual insulation wrappers for each banana stalk. After a windy night last week, I found my insulation blown over, and the enclosed bananas completely died back. [...]
I did the everything I could get to on the winterizing front. The pots were huddled by the south side of the house, the were bananas wrapped, the really tender stuff was relocated inside the house. Now all I have to do is resist the urge to declare winter over at the first [...]
I got the winter weather I wanted, in a very un-Portland like storm. We got about a foot of snow, which blew around in big drifts several feet deep, like I’ve never seen before, followed by freezing rain, with more freezing rain and another possible foot of snow on the way, with temperatures locked [...]
I got back to town to a real deal winter forecast, and was scrambling to get the garden ready on Saturday. The way Portland forecasts usually work, we get a little snow in the forecast, get all excited about it, then nothing. It’s 36 and rainy. This one looked like it wasn’t [...]
I didn’t believe winter weather was ever really going to hit Portland this year. Our low temperatures have been in the 40s. I had good intentions, but was putting off my winterizing plans until my vacation all last week, but then I got hit with the flu and didn’t manage to pull off [...]
The forecast shows Monday night getting down to 36, so it’s time to start protecting the non-hardy stuff, since there is always a chance the weather report is totally wrong, and I get caught off guard by an unexpected frost. I haven’t constructed all my little plant cozies yet, so I’m just huddling everything [...]
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Gardens + Plants
A humane way to overwinter bananas (please don’t cut them down, that makes me sad!)
A humane way to overwinter bananas (please don’t cut them down, that makes me sad!)
I’ve been kicking myself for the entire last year after I missed the Chinese Garden’s demonstration of wrapping bananas and winterizing the garden. Hardy bananas (musa basjoo) are root hardy to 0, but you can lose the “trunk” in much warmer temperatures than that (and I have), and then you’re starting over the next [...]