Peaceful Warrior

Well looks like I lost the cypress this winter. This was my contest tree from last year. I seem to always lose the larger of my trees over the winter. I'm down to two now. My small juniper and my Azalea appear to have survived. Looks like the cypress died due to lack of water, I watered it fairly often but had noticed the soil did no seem to absorb it. I am assuming the soil froze a bit and the water just ran off.

How did everyone else do over the winter?

Prowler

Well i dont water in winter. People often get in a bit of a panic if they are frozen solid, its the wind that gets them.
I thought i had lost one J.maple just what i call a seedling, but i aint sure now.
I keep a few inside in my cold room, they are all in leaf at the moment, outside just buds, another month and i should find out who died. Cheers.

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JLDoggett

I lost quite a few to field mice. They made it through the 1/4-inch mesh and ate the bark and foliage from my evergreens... Grrrrrrrr

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JTGJr25

I only lost one and it was my fault. I put it in my garage before it went dormant and forgot to water it. It just dried up.

Tom

Mattbonsai

Fingers crossed (don't want to jinx it) I've only lost half of a tree, and a quarter of a tree!

But I did some major re-potting on some of them, and there's some Cotoneaster which don't look happy ( I think they may be allergic to cat litter) and a Taxus that doesn't look too happy either. They're still green undernieth, but they could still drop off.

-Matt-

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AlainK

I haven't lost any of my trees this winter. Of course, the winter is probably not as harsh here that it is in Michigan, but I protect my trees this way:

I dug a place in the back of my garden, about 4x3 metres and 30 cm deep.

Before heavy frosts, I put a layer of dead leaves in the bottom, place my pots on it, then add more leaves between the pots and on top of the soil. sometimes, I add straw if I can get some, or pine bark, the sort of thing you find in garden centres to complete.

I never water them, it's damp enough under the cover of leaves.

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Glider

No losses. Two repotted satsukis looked a bit dodgy for a while. Their leaves have gone that awful flat colour that azaleas show when they're in trouble, but new shoots have started from around the buds.

I think the cold windy snap we had just took out the leaves (really cold, dry wind sucked the moisture out of them). The roots seem to have made it (despite the pots freezing) and they appear to be recovering. A bit of TLC and they'll be fine.

Dav4

I don't think I'll know for another few weeks...the trees I keep outside are still frozen solid in their mulch beds and the trees Ive been actively working/re-potting and keep protected in my garage during cold snaps were all frozen solid this AM, too, as it was only 15F outside when I awoke today.

Dave

Prowler

It looks to me as though most of us that have replied have came through this winter not to badly. I did have one scare, we only had one snowstorm this year, you know how it sits on your house roof and when things heat up a bit an avalanche starts, it missed some trees by a couple of inches, looks like a rethink for next year.

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JTGJr25

Wow that would have been a disaster. Never thought of that before I keep my trees close to the house as well maybe I'll keep that in mind next year.

Tom