My 'find' today!

Well done Barbara , you will always get there in the end .. :o)

I love the dark glossy foliage !

Thank you, Amy. .So do I - and I was delighted to see it there! :-))

Now all you've got to do is keep it through THIS winter

Ah, but I have left space in the new greenhouse for my Coprosmas, Andrew! :-))))

Very nice. Well done Spritz.

:) well done, now how many are left on the list to find?????

I've got all of the ones I lost, Grindle. :-) The trouble is that there are an awful lot more of them! I keep looking at the adverts on this screen, to my right! Yum yum! That 'Marble Queen' looks beee-you-ti-ful!

Glad you found one at last
Glad you've put your avatar back to normal :o)

Thanks, Hywel - the toad was just a joke...a 'tease' to Bamboo - and then I forgot which photo of Henry it had been! I prefer this one, too. :-))

Toad lol. I didn't see that !
No , deffinately not for you lol

Thanks, Hywel! LOL. I wish you'd seen Mr Toad - but he was only there for a few hours :-D

A lovley speciman Spritz.Glad to see you are putting in greenhouse for the winter.Taking no chances after last winter !

Nope - the only one that's in the ground, 'Beatson's Gold' can stay there, as it DID survive the winter! All the others are going inside. I really don't want to lose them again - you know how upset I was!

Remember it well,and our young ones miraculously survived !

Have they grown a lot in the last year?

Hmmmm, love that colour. Must remember to bring mine in this week, as frosts forecast.

Really? Well, Moongrower was talking about frozen water butts today - so I suppose it's inevitable for you.

WHO is that man.please???

Yes, we've been unbelievably lucky here. Usually get first frosts as early as September. Actually, I've just been out with a torch and put the Coprosma in the shed for now, as the local weather forecast is for -3 tonight. Oh, that man? A bit too plump to be me, eh? Have got a couple of little gardening history projects on the go at the mo, so just kind of picked him out until I find something more suitable for our garden theme. He is Sir Robert Preston, who gave Humphry Repton, the landscape gardener, his only commission in Scotland, here in Fife (one of my projects).

Never heard of him - only Humphry! I'm showing my ignorance here (hmm).

Yes grown quite a bit as David seems to have too ..a little bit of me was thinking this something I had and you didnt ..dont think many of us could say that .To think they survived here but suffered with you ..when odds were it was more likely to be other way round .

Can only think its the frost that does for them as snow an insulator isnt it ? They were in feet of it in February.

Yes, it could be that, Bb. It was the daily and nightly low temps.for so long here that killed them. sob, sob!

Well think it a bit of a myth that colder in the North ..yes the wind chill factor pretty strong here but the sea helps prevent severe frosts . Those areas furthest from sea often get lowest temps.

That theory doesn't 'hold water' (HAHA) as we are only a mile from the sea, Bb.

Geographically youre near the Bristol Channel ? Probably qualifies as a very large river inlet rather than a sea.It therefore fails to benefit from gulf stream effect areas of Cornwall and Devon do ..if you were to follow Bristol channel along coast to sea think there would be a noticeable difference in effects of frost.

My father lives near RAF Benson weather station in Oxfordshire some 60 miles from the sea ..often lowest night time temps recorded there.

That could well be 'it', Bb. Yes, I think that further west down the coast, the temp. stays higher, normally - except for last winter, of course!

This is nice, only just found the pic. I never plant these, too risky in client's gardens - they're never pleased if what you put in keels over in the winter and has to be replaced. One of the drawbacks of doing other people's gardens is that you always have to use the good doers, mostly.

Thanks, Bamboo - now does that mean you haven't read my blog about my Coprosmas? No - you couldn't possibly use them in other people's gardens! Far too risky!

Thanks, M. They are beautiful shrubs! :-)