Northeast Gardening: What are your winter plans?, 1 by GordonHawk

GordonHawk wrote:
OH.. it's an Oridio Nashiki...a variagated [ white / green / pink ] Japaneese Maple.. there was an article in Fine Gardening some 15 years or so ago..about J Maple grafters...and they talked about this grafter in Pa.. outside Philly..his name was Wolf... so I went down then to see him.. and spent a wonderful day talking to him about the maples...grafting.. and his work with them.. I got that tree and a red one...you can see it at about 4 o ' clock in the first picture of the roof and the flag I posted above. the picture was taken in the late fall... like the middle of October.. so it's not as red but more of a brown/red..then. ..so they have been outside here .. for that long.. and were about 10 years old when I got them.. both are raised... the red oneto keep the lower limbs off the roof.. and this one as it kept having it's 150 lb container to blow over in the wind..so I elevated it and tied it to the table below.. it also frees up some growing area.. having it raised... and provides about the only shade for some things that like it less intense..
so what's tropical... and not downstairs... is in the cool room on the roof..... pictured below .. it's made of 2" thick foam...
[ R- 20 insulation value ] and it didn't get any snow on it at all.. as it blew right off... it's windy up there.. as there's nothing higher to the west... .. till 30 miles to the west ... where some hills in Short Hills , NJ are... the city is just north of me.. so it doesn't block much of my westerly winds.. and what blows around it to me is likely moving / blowing faster than what hits it.. it's 30 * outside here now... and 50 * f in the cool room