Hello, Im kind of new to all this gardening lark and dont have much of a clue.

I have a couple of small bay trees in planters at my front door. They are on a west facing wall and are reasonably well sheltered. Some people I talk to say they have to be brought inside for the winter while others say they would be ok.

Theres talk that this cold be one of the coldest winters ever and I dont want to loose my fine entrance feature. My other half is looking forward to covering them in christmas lights when the time comes, so I dont really want to disappoint her (she's a bit simple like that).

I stay just east of Glasgow.

Any expert advice would be very welcome.

Cheers.

"alanfletch88" wrote in message
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Hello, Im kind of new to all this gardening lark and dont have much of a
clue.

I have a couple of small bay trees in planters at my front door. They
are on a west facing wall and are reasonably well sheltered. Some
people I talk to say they have to be brought inside for the winter
while others say they would be ok.

Theres talk that this cold be one of the coldest winters ever and I
dont want to loose my fine entrance feature. My other half is looking
forward to covering them in christmas lights when the time comes, so I
dont really want to disappoint her (she's a bit simple like that).

I stay just east of Glasgow.

Any expert advice would be very welcome.

Cheers.


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Theres talk that this cold be one of the coldest winters ever and I
dont want to loose my fine entrance feature. My other half is looking
forward to covering them in christmas lights when the time comes, so I
dont really want to disappoint her (she's a bit simple like that).



Interesting to see how things get hyped up via Chinese whispers, pretty soon
we'll have people forecasting that the next ice age is starting. The Met
Office forecast is that it *may* be the coldest winter of the last *ten*
years, and that is after ten years of very mild winters. That would hardly
qualify it it as "one of the coldest winters ever"!

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I have a couple of small bay trees in planters at my front door. They
are on a west facing wall and are reasonably well sheltered. Some
people I talk to say they have to be brought inside for the winter
while others say they would be ok.

Leave them out. If the planters are small, or if the weather gets really
cold and looks like staying that way, wrap the planters in an insulator
of some sort at night and let the sun warm them during the day.

But normal cold weather won't harm them.

Theres talk that this cold be one of the coldest winters ever

Aye, there's talk about the forthcoming end of the world, too, and the
new PorkAir service from Turnhouse...

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dont want to loose my fine entrance feature. My other half is looking
forward to covering them in christmas lights when the time comes, so I
dont really want to disappoint her (she's a bit simple like that).

Christmas has encroached as far north as Glasgow now?

I stay just east of Glasgow.

Well, the weather there is still more West than East, so I'd not worry.

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