WasTa30/11/03 4:59




"Sacha" wrote in message
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Phil Long29/11/03 12:35

snipAlso would it survive if it was planted
outside? I live in the Midlands.

No. It wouldn't survive with us in South Devon. I know of only one
person
who has managed this and he has a very small, walled garden, near the sea
and with its own micro-climate - David Poole - a former contributor to
urg.

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Mine survives outside here in East Yorkshire, though admittedly for only 2
winters.

the local agricultural college have one about 20 ft high that has survived
for many years.


If you fleece, pack straw round and generally produce its own environment
for it, almost anything will survive outside. But that wasn't what the OP
asked about. Even then, there is the danger that with sufficient frost deep
into the ground, it will not survive. The choice and the risk are his. Every
detail of an environment makes a difference with something of this sort -
wind shelter, proximity to a comparatively warm house wall, availability to
whatever sun a winter's day does produce, other houses or plants providing
shelter etc.
I grew things outdoors in Jersey, which over wintered without protection for
several years and then one sharp and rare frost has killed them. Caveat
emptor and urgler!
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