Category Archives: Winter damage

Summer After the Winter of Three Degrees

Posted on August 3, 2018 by aheronsgarden

The Pittosporum Rout What a fickle gardener I am! Pittosoporum were hit hard after last winter, harder than we thought. We assumed they would bounce back by midsummer, but they didn’t. Reasonable rainfall might have promoted growth, but more than … Continue reading →

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Mending Winter’s Mischief

Posted on May 25, 2018 by aheronsgarden

Chicken Soup for the Garden(er?) (All photos in the text are of Camellia sasanqua ‘Yuletide,’ a very large, 20-year-old shrub that has bloomed prolifically and dependably but is now in a precarious battle for survival.)  Weather! Weather! Weather! We complain. … Continue reading →

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The Winter of Three Degrees Part I of III

Posted on April 24, 2018 by aheronsgarden

Or, Exposure Exposure Exposure. . .And More I can already hear our northern friends laughing. You can’t be wringing your hands over Three Degrees! Three posts devoted to a cold winter! You Southern Softies! Don’t expect us to feel sorry … Continue reading →

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