Need big beautiful shrubs...
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Anonymous
| I love my Gardenias. They smell amazing and grow wide and tall. Beautiful white flowers that knock me over with their fragrance. |
Anonymous
What variety have you had this success with? Zone 7 is a bit borderline for most gardenias, but i am interested in exploring. |
Anonymous
The frost free one. Saw them at Johnsons in DC today. |
Anonymous
Do they need special treatment in winter? |
Anonymous
Thanks for the variety. I've been reading up on this online, but feel that in many plant write-ups in general the authors elide over possible problems. Frost Free variously is listed at up to zone 7 or zone 6--zone 6 feels a safer choice in DC given we are are not so far from the the zone 7 limit. How tall have your Frost Frees grown? |
Anonymous
+1 These are good if you want some height quickly. |
Anonymous
I was going to recommend skip laurels. Ours are thick and beautiful. I have to cut about a foot off of them several time a year. I love hydrangeas, but they need lots of water. Mine are loving life this spring, but some years it's a struggle to keep them from drooping. |
Anonymous
I love gardenias, but even the so called hardy ones that I planted died during the polar vortex (3 years ago?) I replanted, and we got another cold winter. I then gave up. They would have survived the winter we just had, but you are taking a chance. My neighbor had lots of big old gardenias that she lost during the polar vortex. The knockout roses are good and relatively easy to care for, if you like flowers. |
Anonymous
Mine are on year two and have almost doubled in size. Probably 2.5 feet tall and wide? They say they can grow to 4'. |
Anonymous
No. Only when it snowed a lot I gently banged off the snow from the top and sides. And I fertilize in the spring. |