Re: Winter blooms - Vancouver Island

We don't need any more cougars on Vancouver Island!  We have plenty. 
They do help to control the deer population.

There is even the famous case where a cougar was trapped in the 
underground parking garage of Victoria's major downtown tourist hotel 
- the Empress.



At 11:14 AM -0800 11/20/01, Jason D wrote:
>I believe the Brazilian F. campos-portoi is quite
>winter-hardy, native at quite high elevations. I may
>be wrong about the species name, but I remember one of
>those Brazilians takes hard-freezing winters.
>re Deer: We need to get you some cougars. ;-)
>Anyone?
>-Jason
>
>
>--- Otter Point <otterpt@macn.bc.ca> wrote:
>>  Hi Jason,
>>
>>  The ones that are blooming now are F. magellanica
>>  and F. 'Double Otto'
>>  and they bloom until frost - which we haven't had
>>  yet.  I have three
>>  of the former and with support through the rose
>>  arbor, one of them has
>>  canes arching over the top of the 10-foot arbor
>>  because we haven't had
>>  a really cold winter for years to freeze it back.
>>  It usually takes a
>>  heavy frost to stop them blooming.  The 'Alba' form,
>>  F. magellanica
>>  var.molinae, is supposed to be the hardiest of the
>>  fuchias but stops
>>  blooming when cool fall weather sets in - it is a
>>  shy bloomer anyway.
>>
>>  'Double Otto' is especially liked by the deer
>>  because the new growth
>>  is thick and fleshy and they seem to eat the
>>  branches when they are
>>  covered with dangling unopened buds.  The flowers
>>  are huge on this -
>>  possibly as big as fuchia flowers get?  It forms a
>>  strong woody trunk.
>>  I moved it this year so cut it back to 4 feet but
>>  will get it up there
>>  again out of the deer's reach.  (I grow about 70
>>  roses in the same
>>  manner - out of the deer's reach through one
>>  contrivance or another!)
>>
>>  I don't grow any of the tender fuchias.
>>
>>  Diane Pertson
>>
>
>
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