Tropicals & Tender Perennials: If you're pushing the envelope .. it's still stationary, 0 by GordonHawk

GordonHawk wrote:
Well.. overwintering my brugs has been fun this year... the cool room worked wonderfully.. and it's now become a pond and planters...
I'd overwintered three brugs in the ground here in Zone 7a.. I'd mulched them with leaves.. and threw on a thin sheet of bubble wrap.. more leaves maybe 6" and another bubble wrap.. more leaves and a tarp..covering it all.. no sprouting yet.. but I went out to dig around.. in preperation for bringing new ones to be planted.. and on the first two,,, no signs of deep sprouting as I dug them up.. all the roots even the deepest and biggest.. were all brown inside when they were scraped... then the last one.. Kell's Aborea.. as soon as I knicked the top lump of the old junction of the stalk with the root mass.. I found a brillant green just under a dry firm bark,,,
Now it hasn't officially sprouted back.. as it has been cool and a bit dry perhaps.. but dollars to doughnuts the Aborea will come back from the roots this year.. here in NYC...

This message was edited Apr 24, 2010 2:46 PM