Right now with the freezing rain warning the entire fruit orchard is flooded with water right now, right to where the paperbark maples and pawpaw saplings were planted (former hates wet feet, latter can take floods provided it’s in a far warmer climate). Knowing how the weather goes around here (especially in January/February) it’ll probably freeze solid after the next few days of rain which may give them quite a severe shock. Guess we’re getting a full test of canadian hardiness on these rare expensive trees aren’t we?
101 reasons Gato considers this area zone 4 and below and not zone 5/6 for so many plants-
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