{"id":523,"date":"2011-12-05T16:05:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T16:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paramountplants.co.uk\/blog\/?p=523"},"modified":"2019-08-08T10:59:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T10:59:14","slug":"protecting-tropical-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paramountplants.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/protecting-tropical-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing the Exotic Garden for Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have just had one of the mildest Autumns on record but, not meaning to sound too pessimistic, I am sure things will change weather wise be it sooner or later.<\/p>\n<p>The combination of complacency and the element of surprise regarding the last 2 winters meant that plants which may have been saved with protection were lost.\u00a0 Whether we will experience another winter as severe as the last 2 remains to be seen but it is worth taking a few precautions to give our exotics the best chance of survival.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The most noticeable victims of the worse winter in 100 years (2010) were the Cordyline Australis, Phormiums and Phoenix Palms.\u00a0 Many of these were large established mature plants which as a result left some very large holes.\u00a0It is understandable that some people were reluctant to replace these plants when they could be killed again, but this need not be the case.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Methods for Protecting Plants over the Winter Months<br \/>\nCordylines<\/strong><br \/>\nThe most vulnerable part of these plants is the growing point and one of their worse enemies is snow.\u00a0 If long periods of snow are forecast tie the leaves up preferably in two or three places to ensure that snow or excess moisture cannot penetrate the inner part of the plant.\u00a0 The lower (outer) leaves will protect the inner more tender ones.\u00a0 During in-between periods of milder weather untie to allow air to circulate.\u00a0 In very cold areas you may also need to wrap the trunks of the plant with hessian or horticultural fleece.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_524\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paramountplants.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/cordylines\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-524\" class=\"size-full wp-image-524\" title=\"How To Protect Cordylines From Frost\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paramountplants.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/winter-preparation-cordylines.jpg\" alt=\"How To Protect Cordylines From Winter Frost\" width=\"600\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How To Protect Cordylines From Winter FrostProtecting Phormiums From Winter Frost by Packing With Straw<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_526\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paramountplants.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/packing-phormiums-with-straw-200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-526\" class=\"size-full wp-image-526\" title=\"Protecting Phormiums From Winter Frost\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paramountplants.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/packing-phormiums-with-straw-200.jpg\" alt=\"Protecting Phormiums From Winter Frost\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-526\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protecting Phormiums From Winter Frost by Packing With Straw<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"phormiums\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paramountplants.co.uk\/plant\/phorm\/phormium-tenax.html\"><strong>Phormiums<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/a>The part of these you need to protect most in very severe weather is the base.\u00a0 Straw is a tremendous insulator providing it is kept reasonably dry.\u00a0 After packing the straw around the base cover it with slates or tiles.\u00a0 This will stop it from blowing away and keep off the worse of the wet.\u00a0 It is important to tie up the leaves of phormiums because heavy snow breaks and flattens them.\u00a0 In very severe conditions hessian wrapped around will make a big difference for the foliage.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally even reliably hardy plants like <a title=\"Trachycarpus\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paramountplants.co.uk\/plant\/trachy\/trachycarpus-fortunei.html\">Trachycarpus Palms <\/a>in long periods of heavy snow will benefit greatly from having their leaves tied up.\u00a0 Light snow can be knocked off with a broom but heavy snow will weigh down and even break the leaves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bananas<\/strong><br \/>\nThe most tender of all hardy exotics is the Banana \u2013 Musa Basjoo.\u00a0 These plants are root hardy (so even if the plant dies back completely there is a good chance of it reshooting the following year if properly mulched) but if you want them to get bigger year by year you will need to protect the trunk.\u00a0 When the first frost is imminent first cut off all the leaves.\u00a0 If you plant is small you can use some thick plastic drain pipe or an old chimney pot.\u00a0 If the trunk is say 1.5-2m height you will need to make a tube out of chicken wire (about 18 inches diameter).\u00a0 Then pack the straw down around the trunk of the banana until you have reached and covered the top.\u00a0 If using plastic tubing all you will need to do then is cover the top with slate or tile.\u00a0 If chickenwire you will then need to cover the whole thing with plastic sheeting.\u00a0 Tie around the middle to prevent blowing away and make a few small vertical slits in the plastic to prevent condensation.\u00a0 Your banana will begin to sprout around late May when everything can then be removed.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Tree Ferns\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paramountplants.co.uk\/tree-ferns.html\">Tree Ferns<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong>As with Cordylines the part of these plants in need of protection is the crown.\u00a0 It is not determintal to tree ferns to lose their fronds through frost, as a complete new set of them is produced every year, usually all at once but any frost damage to the crown can kill them completely.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_525\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paramountplants.co.uk\/tree-ferns.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-525\" class=\"size-full wp-image-525\" title=\"Preparing Tree Ferns For The Winter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paramountplants.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/winter-preparation-tree-ferns.jpg\" alt=\"Protecting Tree Ferns From Winter Frost\" width=\"600\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protecting Tree Ferns From Winter Frost<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Simply push a few handfuls of straw down the top of the trunk where the new fronds emerge and then cover with a tile or slate to prevent the straw blowing away and to keep off the worse of the rain.\u00a0 If you wish to try and retain the existing fronds tie them up vertically and wrap around with hessian.\u00a0 In very cold areas it might also be wise to wrap the trunk in hessian as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Phoenix Palm<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/a>Do exactly as described for Tree Ferns\u00a0 but wrap the whole plant with several layers of hessian.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paramountplants.co.uk\/plant\/gunnera\/gunnera-manicata.html\">Gunnera Manicata<\/a> (Giant Rhubarb)<\/strong><br \/>\nIt is important to protect the crowns of these plants which otherwise can be killed completely by severe frost.\u00a0 First cut off all\u00a0 the leaves and then the stalks of the leaves.\u00a0 Place a generous covering of straw over the crown of the plant and then turning the leaves upside down place them (beginning with the smallest) on top of each other on top of the straw.\u00a0 Then lay the salks of the leaves on top of them to prevent them blowing away.<\/p>\n<p>Spending relatively little time and money with these precautions can ensure the survival of often large and expensive plants.<\/p>\n<p>It is not just the cost involved but it is also sad to lose fine specimens which we may have had for a number of years.<\/p>\n<p>We all hope of course that the mild winters that we have all become accustomed to will return but in the meantime to prevent our being disheartened we should do what we can to retain the plants we have&#8230;<br \/>\nPLEASE READ IN CONJUNCTION WITH OUR OTHER BLOGS INCLUDING TOP TIPS FOR MAINTAINING YOUR GARDEN<br \/>\n<a title=\"Cordylines\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paramountplants.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/cordylines\/\">Winter Damaged Cordylines<\/a>&#8230;<br \/>\n<a title=\"Top Tips for Garden Maintenance\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paramountplants.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/garden-maintenance\/\">Top Tips for Maintaining Your Plants<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have just had one of the mildest Autumns on record but, not meaning to sound too pessimistic, I am sure things will change weather wise be it sooner or 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The combination of complacency and the element of surprise regarding the last 2 winters meant that plants which may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[43,25,46,33,6],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-garden-design-maintenance","tag-garden-maintenance","tag-hardy-palms","tag-mediterranean-plants-2","tag-tree-ferns","tag-tropical-plants"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v26.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How To Protect Your Tropical Garden Plants For The Winter.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Myles Challis our garden designer talks through simple ways to protect your precious tropical garden and Mediterranean plants from 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