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Originally Posted by The Hollyberry Lady
It is sound advice and I may be a fool not to take it, but I must do what supposedly cannot be done!
As well, the person in Thunder Bay, Ontario, told me that they never once covered their plant, even when they got their 1st pup in the beginning. I will definitely protect one pup, so I don't end up with nothing, if I fail miserably, but the other will remain uncovered.
One thing I did do though, is I buried the pup deep, when I sunk it into the lily garden. We get snow really fast when it turns cold, and snow is even better than mulch, so I believe the roots will be just fine. I also buried a blood and bonemeal treat over a foot down, to encourage the roots to go deep. They have over 4 months to get established before winter sets in.
Let's see if the people in my neck of the woods are in fact correct in that it does not require any protection, or if come Spring, I'll be sorry!
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You are lucky. We have freezes about -5°C (23°F) and the snows holds in the night, but then the day comes and we have 10°C and the snow is gone, turns into water and that goes straight to the soil, but not before it freezes deeply the next night.
Usually, when the hardest frosts come (usually one night or so, sometimes a week, but never more), there's no snow at all and the frosts are deep, yet no plant is protected. Especially peaches dislike such conditions.
I lost about 30 seedlings of hardy palms (Trachys, Nannorrhopses,...) because of the snow not able to hold on during the day. They were all wet and then froze to death in the night in -10°C (14°F), little babies. I burried each one of them into the compost with a very, very bad feeling of misery and failure.