When to Overwinter Exotic Garden Plants
Today's video is about when when to begin overwintering, wrapping, protecting, mulching & bringing in exotic and tropical style garden plants. A lot of the plants including bamboos & Trachycarpus palms I talk about are hardy, others like tree ferns and feather palms need some degree of winter protection whereas some have to come inside as houseplants before the first frosts. I've done specific plant overwintering guides for Tetrapanax, Dicksonia antartica tree ferns etc. but in this video I give an overview of when I do this and the factors that might affect this for your garden. As always, just leave a comment if you've got any other questions. My Dicksonia antartica winter care guide: • Tree Fern Winter Care - Overwintering Dick... Tropical/Jungle Style Gardening UK Facebook Group, a great resource for overwintering info, plant care tips, rare exotic plants sales, real UK garden plant experiences & garden inspiration: / 282958742948037 0:00 Intro 1:16 Protecting plants from frost & minimising plant overwintering time 3:12 When to overwinter / protect plants, what plants are you growing? 4:38 How your location affects when you overwinter & plant protection methods 6:07 Only wrap plants & bring them in according to the weather & forecasts 7:24 Dig up, bring in and prepare plants for winter when works for YOU 10:04 When I bring in tender plants like houseplants, Colocasia, Alocasia & Ensete 12:14 When I dig up and overwinter plants like Cannas in a greenhouse and wrap Musa basjoo bananas 14:58 Wrapping tree ferns, feather palms like Phoenix and protecting potted plants during freezes If you've enjoyed my content and would like to say thanks for the price of a coffee then please head over to my Ko-fi, any kind donations would be appreciated and put towards creating more exciting content (or treats for Max if you wish!): https://ko-fi.com/georgesjunglegarden Thanks, George
