First blog...winter wrapping!

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Hi all fellow garden guys & gals
As the weekend had a sunny & dry day, thought that I better get a few choice plants wrapped up for the winter.

As I’ve got more plants now than a year ago, the garage doesn’t have enough room anymore.

So I am having a go at winter protection outside in some mini plastic greenhouses.

I ran some searches on GoY first to see what all of you experts do…so hope this works!

I’ve posted some before and after pics.
Fingers crossed that this enough of a winter blanket!

Jasmine Before on a summer’s night (ok so I thought the wine glass was out of shot….!)

Jasmine After- its in there – honest!

Bay Tree Zinc planters in the summer…..

Bay Tree Zinc Planters after- a bit festive but that’s because I am only doing this once in the autumn/winter!

I would have really liked some plain brown potato planters…but this was all I could get!

If it gets really snowy I’ll put fleece hoods on these, but in the meantime this should protect the roots from frost.

Still got loads more to wrap up or mulch for winter….so hoping for another dry weekend soon!

Any advice re the aeonium in next photo, will a similiar winter festive wrapping plus bringing it under cover of a north facing open porch be enough? I normally take it in to the garage each year..but it loses all its petals/leaves in the dark and space is a bit limited this year…..

Thanks for reading and enjoy the changing seasons- I’ve been loving all the gorgeous Autumn photos and blogs GoY members are posting!!

• 1 Nov, 2012
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