Today was a beautiful and icy cold day with not much wind. A perfect day for finally fleecing up the less hardy (or just expensive) plants. So here we are:
Poor old Bastard the Cycad has been trussed up and fleeced (he looked ghastly after last winter, so I'm trying to minimise the damage). The Phoenix canariensis is also fleeced (my least favourite job of all).
Dicksonia antarctica and Washingtonia robusta are looking cosy too.
And Brahea armata, Bastard II, Cyathea cooperi, Blechnum tabulare, Tetrapanax "Rex" and Wollemi nobilis complete the set. These are all drawstring fleece covers from Wilkinsons, and they're so much easier than getting rolls of fleece instead.
I'm probably being overprotective this year, but after last year's carnage I'm not particularly inclined to take the risk! It's looking a bit miserable now, but I console myself with the fact that the conifers really come into their own about this time of year, and it's probably the only point where they're really visible in all their glory.
And speaking of glory, here's the prize bloom in my garden, Hubsterus buttocksi, emptying the fountain.
Brightens up one's day no end, doesn't it?
Poor old Bastard the Cycad has been trussed up and fleeced (he looked ghastly after last winter, so I'm trying to minimise the damage). The Phoenix canariensis is also fleeced (my least favourite job of all).
Dicksonia antarctica and Washingtonia robusta are looking cosy too.
And Brahea armata, Bastard II, Cyathea cooperi, Blechnum tabulare, Tetrapanax "Rex" and Wollemi nobilis complete the set. These are all drawstring fleece covers from Wilkinsons, and they're so much easier than getting rolls of fleece instead.
I'm probably being overprotective this year, but after last year's carnage I'm not particularly inclined to take the risk! It's looking a bit miserable now, but I console myself with the fact that the conifers really come into their own about this time of year, and it's probably the only point where they're really visible in all their glory.
And speaking of glory, here's the prize bloom in my garden, Hubsterus buttocksi, emptying the fountain.
Brightens up one's day no end, doesn't it?
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