By flaflwrgrl | I sit here writing this on 1/28/14 while we await abnormal winter weather to strike this evening. Here in the south our perennials are showing signs of tender new spring growth, but the weather is predicted to give us a beating for the next 2 days in the form of unseasonable ice pellets and mixed winter precipitation, to include snow or sleet. |
greene said:In a pinch I covered each plant with the large paper yard waste bags then topped that with the plastic buckets - what an assortment!! My yard looked very decorative indeed. Thanks.
virginiarose said:Thanks for the tip on the buckets! I love your yard, that seating area is so beautiful.
NEILMUIR1 said:Whilst Head Gardener on a big estate open to the public, one of my duties was to look after the Victorian kitchen garden. The wonderful and most knowledgeable Lady owner of the estate always wanted sea kale (Crambe maritima), for the kitchen! To this end in Victorian times large terracotta pots were made so as to force the sea kale up in spring and to blanch or whiten the stems which are eaten.
These huge and frost resistant pots were found by me to be ideal to protect many ornamental plants from the damaging snow & ice.
Some plants especially on this estate died due to too much cold/rain and not ice. So if a lot of rain was forecast the said plants were covered for as long as the rain lasted.
Luckily we had hundreds of these terracotta pots. They were designed to cover plants and not to be used as a normal pot. They also had a small hole in the top, to allow some air circulation. A Victorian wonder indeed.
Regards.
Neil.
p.s. Remarkably these pots are still made look here. http://www.littlethorpepotteri...
flaflwrgrl said:I would like to thank everyone for the 's & the :acorn:'s!