The plants came from Iseli Nursery, http://www.iselinursery.com/ A local nursery special ordered the plant from them
Last
year (fall of 2015) I put a burlap “shield” on the northwest side of my Jeans
Dilly trees to protect them from the prevailing winter winds. That didn’t seem
to help as I had those brown limbs on the trees the following spring. This
photo was taken October 2015.
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| October 2015 Barrier |
Last
winter, I came home from Florida in the spring and inspected my plantings in
the railway to see how they did. It was a low snow year, so there wasn’t much
shelter from the winter weather. My south facing hillside which my tunnel runs
through is covered with Jeans Dilly tress with a couple Pixie Dust
interspersed. I found that I had some browning of the Jeans Dilly trees, but
the Pixie Dust trees did fine. I didn’t know if it was the lack of snow that
contributed to the dead limbs or sun exposure as the sun reflected off the low
volume of snow and then hit the trees. So, last fall I set up a burlap “screen”
on the south side of that hill to shield the trees from direct exposure to the
sun. Of course we also had a much larger amount of snow this past winter.
However, upon my arrival back home a couple weeks ago, I found all of those
trees in good shape. Here is a photo of the shield that I made using a metal
frame with burlap attached to it using clothespins.
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| Winter 2016 Barrier |
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