Cool! I’ll have to give that a shot sometime.

@pombazaar - Evergreen poms should do fine in your zone - when people say "evergreen" with poms what they really mean is "facultatively deciduous" - in other words, they can go dormant but can also retain leaves year-round if conditions are good. So you can still let them go dorm...

I’ve gotten distracted by finding out that I can grow sugar cane in my zone. On the Pom front, my salavatskis flowered like crazy this year, so I’m excited to possibly get some fruit in 2021. Now to get some of my other 50-or-so varieties to flower. Pro-tip: the people who say poms don’t need fertil...

It survived, though growth was slow this year. May-time frosts really throw a monkey wrench into everything.

Nice!


Yes, this variety, Shien’s Pink, came from a Wonderful rootstock and is much more cold hardy than Wonderful. My guess is that it was a seedling that was used for rootstock for some reason.

How’s Shien’s white working for you? Anything yet?


JDH

You know, I don’t remember, haha. I’ll have to check - my guess would be that it died back to the ground because we had a very late frost.

Alan,


NYC is zone 7b - ocean and concrete keep it pretty mild. You moving there or getting poms from there?

Nice! In 8a, I don't image Parfianka will have any trouble surviving winters. Pictures of it?

I’ll have Melgar, C Rosa and eight ball this winter.

Yeah, those late winter freezes are the worst. I'm comforted by a variety I have, Devedisi, that took several nights in the high 20s with no apparent leaf damage - I'm hoping it will be as resistant to late frosts as it is to early ones. Thing grows like a weed too.