"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 26/11/05 15:23, in article ,
"Pam Moore" wrote:

Please can anyone give me any guidance as to how hardy or otherwise
Tibouchina is?
I have one about 2 feet tall. I have brought it into a bedroom.
A friend who has a sheltered walled garden in Bristol left hers out
all last winter, and has not done more than cover it with fleece in
this recent cold spell.
I do have the offer of an unheated greenhouse. Which would be better?

We don't leave them outside here and I've lost one in a garden in Jersey
when it went to somewhere around -4. I think that even in an unheated
greenhouse it could be at risk but others may have different experiences.
Ours are kept in a large greenhouse where the heating comes on
automatically
if the temp drops below freezing. Perhaps the greenhouse *and* a cosy
fleece blanket? ;-)
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

I am trying one outside this year, yesterday it was covered in snow, today
its looking lovely still in full flower in the sunshine. Past experiance
tells me I am likely to lose it before the winter is over but I am hoping it
may come from below as I have given it a heavy loose mulch.
In the Greenhouse (not heated but frost free) they remain in growth and
flower all winter, in the open tunnel they go down to around -4c but with
control over the wet, these are normally killed to the base and regrow.
I would say at the base of a sunny wall with help from fleece it should go
through, but its not a plant where I would use my only one!
--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)