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So true, a little rain wouldn’t be a bad thing but it’s hard to complain when the weather is so beautiful for once!
How did all your seedlings cope with frost in the polytunnel. Do you cover them ?
True, Most of the seedlings are of hardy plants so will be OK.
Is that a pindo palm in front of the Mediterranean fan palm? Was that always there?
Well done! I do not know it as pindo palm but yes it is Butia capitata. I have had it many many years and it was stunted in a pot most of its life. I used to keep it in a cold greenhouse when I and it were in the UK but it has been outside two winters in Ireland, one in a pot by the house and the last in the garden where you can see it. It has not been a very cold winter but it looks as good as it ever has. It may have to move one more time when I decide on the raised beds – it is planted in a mound because the soil in this location is a bit waterlogged in winter – but if it does move it will be quick and careful – and final. It is supposed to be one of the few that is hardy in this part of the world and it has certainly coped with the continual storms this spring.
I did not consider hardiness. I consider it to be rather resilient, but of course, it does not get very cool here. There are so many palms that it is difficult to select just a few to grow. I just recently canned two nice Mexican fan palms from a house that is to be demolished. They were so rad, but I had no idea what to do with them. Fortunately, the guy who moved out of the house took one to his new house.
Likewise, a beautiful day here with blue skies and gardening in short-sleeved shirt. The frost was more gentle with us and left no noticeable mark on anything.
Re the photograph and the couch grass. I find the same with photographs. I go with friends to find native orchids and take countless photographs of each flower, full flower, close-up etc etc and it really is amazing the detail you can see and appreciate later when viewing on screen.
We had a sharper frost this morning that did for the corylopsis and damaged the acer but that is how it goes. Yes – it is like proof reading – you can read it a dozen times on the screen but you only see the errors when it is print!
We are escaping so as we had no frost last night either.