Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Should this be blooming now?, 0 by Kell

Kell wrote:
Hi Lin, WELCOME to the Brug Forum and brugs! I am in your zone and just ran out to take a pic of my EP for you. It is white now and will stay white in the cold weather. Of course my EP is usually very pale PINK here anyway, never gets very dark. We were down to the very low 30s last week for a few nights and in the higher 30s during the day and it came thru with buds intact.

If you are going to get a hard freeze I would take some cuttings before just to be sure in case it dies on you. I left my EP out all last winter and it did pretty good even in our 1 frost. Usually Versicolors can be a bit more cold sensitive. It always gets weird bark with the real cold weather though. More so than my other brugs.

If you do leave it out, I would throw a sheet over it at night if you are expecting a frost. If it gets down below 30 degrees and stays there for awhile, you could have big problems.