Hi, I've just been given a fatsia japonica. It's about 2 feet high and
bushy, but in a very small shallow pot.

I'll re-pot it in spring, but is it best kept indoors until then please?

Indoor environment - cool, warm in the evenings when I've got the
heating on. Choice of south or east facing windows or shade. I guess the
air is pretty dry.

Outside environment - choice or direct sunlight or shade, but very very
windy (it's a riverside terrace so the air is never still). It'll be
blown over in minutes if I don't surround it with bricks.

Any help much appreciated, thanks.

Tom

"Tom" wrote in message
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Hi, I've just been given a fatsia japonica. It's about 2 feet high and
bushy, but in a very small shallow pot.

I'll re-pot it in spring, but is it best kept indoors until then please?

Indoor environment - cool, warm in the evenings when I've got the heating
on. Choice of south or east facing windows or shade. I guess the air is
pretty dry.

Outside environment - choice or direct sunlight or shade, but very very
windy (it's a riverside terrace so the air is never still). It'll be blown
over in minutes if I don't surround it with bricks.

Any help much appreciated, thanks.

Tom
When our Fatsia became too big for indoors, I planted it out in the garden
with little hope of it's survival. I live in Aberdeen, and it is now in it's
5th winter - has grown to 2m tall, has flowered, and I am now contemplating
hacking it back as it will soon outgrown it's space in the garden. It's not
against a sheltered wall - no special treatment. So, in brief, I think
they're pretty hardy!
Chris S

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"Tom" wrote in message
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Hi, I've just been given a fatsia japonica. It's about 2 feet high and
bushy, but in a very small shallow pot.

I'll re-pot it in spring, but is it best kept indoors until then please?

Indoor environment - cool, warm in the evenings when I've got the heating
on. Choice of south or east facing windows or shade. I guess the air is
pretty dry.

Outside environment - choice or direct sunlight or shade, but very very
windy (it's a riverside terrace so the air is never still). It'll be blown
over in minutes if I don't surround it with bricks.

Any help much appreciated, thanks.

Tom
When our Fatsia became too big for indoors, I planted it out in the garden
with little hope of it's survival. I live in Aberdeen, and it is now in it's
5th winter - has grown to 2m tall, has flowered, and I am now contemplating
hacking it back as it will soon outgrown it's space in the garden. It's not
against a sheltered wall - no special treatment. So, in brief, I think
they're pretty hardy!
Chris S



Established plants are tough because the leaves shield the stems from the
frost but small plants as described will be killed to the ground by a -6c
event or worse so grow it on until its bigger then they seem pretty tough
(-4c here last night and tonights looking colder)
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea

On 27 Jan, 13:54, Tom wrote:
Hi, I've just been given a fatsia japonica. It's about 2 feet high and
bushy, but in a very small shallow pot.
I'll re-pot it in spring, but is it best kept indoors until then please?
Indoor environment - cool, warm in the evenings when I've got the
heating on. Choice of south or east facing windows or shade. I guess the
air is pretty dry.
Outside environment - choice or direct sunlight or shade, but very very
windy (it's a riverside terrace so the air is never still). It'll be
blown over in minutes if I don't surround it with bricks.
Any help much appreciated, thanks.

I've never kept fatsia indoors - I have two, one growing in a pot
(about 5 years now) in a wheelbarrow with other plants in it, against
a fence north facing (I'm in the north west and it blows hard here but
it has the fence for protection). The other one is two metres high, in
the ground, outside, against a fence in full sun. They like protection
on one side (which helps being tipped over if the wind take on the
leaves) and frost and snow damage them a bit but soon enough you get
new leaves and just take out the yellow one. The plant will grow its
leaves as it grows up and you will end up with spare stems. Then plant
something else underneath, I have ground ivy. They are pretty hardy.
Can you put it straight in the ground against a fence? Where are you?

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On 27 Jan, 13:54, Tom wrote:
Hi, I've just been given a fatsia japonica. It's about 2 feet high and
bushy, but in a very small shallow pot.
I'll re-pot it in spring, but is it best kept indoors until then please?
Indoor environment - cool, warm in the evenings when I've got the
heating on. Choice of south or east facing windows or shade. I guess the
air is pretty dry.
Outside environment - choice or direct sunlight or shade, but very very
windy (it's a riverside terrace so the air is never still). It'll be
blown over in minutes if I don't surround it with bricks.
Any help much appreciated, thanks.

I've never kept fatsia indoors - I have two, one growing in a pot
(about 5 years now) in a wheelbarrow with other plants in it, against
a fence north facing (I'm in the north west and it blows hard here but
it has the fence for protection). The other one is two metres high, in
the ground, outside, against a fence in full sun. They like protection
on one side (which helps being tipped over if the wind take on the
leaves) and frost and snow damage them a bit but soon enough you get
new leaves and just take out the yellow one. The plant will grow its
leaves as it grows up and you will end up with spare stems. Then plant
something else underneath, I have ground ivy. They are pretty hardy.
Can you put it straight in the ground against a fence? Where are you?

I'm in London but I'm right on the river so the wind is pretty fierce. I
should have said, my outside space is concrete so it will have to stay
in a pot.

Cheers,

Tom