More Salt Spring Island Exotic Plants

Here is one of many specimens of Fatsia japonica I grow in my garden. This is a very common and well used plant on our island. Jan. 3, 2010

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[orcie12345]

Oke, here in Holland it can be very wet to, last year we had a very dry winter, maybe that's the reason it survives.

3 weeks of frost and the Cycas Revoluta was still alive. It even produced new leaves this summer.

Btw, Good luck further, I hope to see some more videos from your garden!

[bj616]

I am uploading two short vids. I made today.

[orcie12345]

Great garden you have there in Canada!

Why dont you try to grow some cycas revoluta?

It survived -9 last year in my garden.

[bj616]

`I have definately tried them in the past, but it's our cool wet winter they seem to dislike. . I do know where one grows near our main town. It has been there for about 5 years or so, but I haven't checked on it in a while. If gown close to a building under an overhang in a sheltered microclimate they have a better chance

[BananaJSSI]

@snorlaxx1337911 No need for guns where I live.

[snorlaxx1337911]

do you carry a gun in the holster?

[ComradeSephiroth]

I'd imagine that zone 7 Fatsia would start to run up against one of two difficulties. In the interior West it would have to deal with hot dry summers and east of the Rockies, hot humid summers. About the only zone 7 locations without a ton of summer heat are here in the PNW, but nearly all of those get a ton of snow in the winter, and have to endure extended periods of moderate cold.

I'd imagine that too much of either would greatly stress out the plants.

[bj616]

I suppose if someone were to cheat a bit each winter it would be more possible. Heat cables, old school C-9 X-mas lights work well too. I do know of a tall old palm growing in a court yard in Maryland and also another in Reading, PA. It was planted in 1988. I'll share the most recent vid. made of it going through a snow storm.

[russianintrigue]

@bj616 The problem with "tropicals" here is that they may make it for a few years but they never endure. In the Northeast you must protect, even in the mildest coastal regions here there is little (no) chance for long-term survival.

[bj616]

Right on! I know they can grow some decent Trachycarpus fortunei in sheltered microclimates of NJ. I have never seen winter damage on Fatsia here on our island. However areas away from the ocean on the mainland I saw damage on them from the Dec. 2008 freeze. Here on our island it never gets cold enough.