Re: making troughs/ placing troughs
- Subject: Re: making troughs/ placing troughs
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 22:48:08 EDT
In a message dated 6/25/02 2:26:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
corgilover@wi.rr.com writes:
<< I've always wanted to try my hand at making something out of
hypertufa, but have heard that my climate (Zone 5 - SE
Wisconsin) is too hard on hypertufa to be left outside.
Can anyone in this neck of the woods give me their
experiences with it and freeze/thaw cycles? >>
The containers can left outside with absolutely no damage with the possible
exception of mosses incorporated into the walls of the containers. The
plants will die unless the trough is placed around two or three inches into
the soil and protected from rodents in some way. Snow shoveled on top of
them will help, if you can keep snow overwinter.
We don't try any more, semps are all that live over without protection. The
troughs are heavy. If the plant is a hardy one for you, it should make it if
the trough is not off the ground on a stand or rocks or whatever.
On the Alpine List (look in their archives) there was a long thread on this
and it ended up with no agreement and summed up about as I have here.
Alternatively, you could move the plants to a frame or safe place and replant
in the spring. It is the plant that is at risk, not the container.
Claire Peplowski
NYS zone 4
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