Exotic plants can dress up in almost any home or garden. We have found five hardy and rare plants with a unique expression, which can manage to stand outside in a Danish winter with very little protection.
How to survive your exotic plants in winter
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the Apes horror
Photo: Jesper Carl Corfitzen
the Apes fright, Araucaria araucana, which originates from Chile, is a tørketolerant, evergreen conifer with a pyramidal growth form and broad prickly needles. Hardy and can be grown outdoors or as big krukkeplante for a number of years.
In very severe winters, should the jar, however, vinterbeskyttes with halmmåtte and evs. bubble wrap, but it can stand out.
new zealand flax
Photo: Jesper Carl Corfitzen
new zealand flax, Phormium tenax originates from New Zealand. Puts big, sværdformede green to the colorful striped leaves. Thrive in a humous and nutrient-rich humectants soil and tolerates part frost.
Grown either in the open air, where it can cope with the easy cover of a halmmåtte, or in pots, where it is placed lightly protected under canopies, but are kept moist through the winter. Can be protected with a halmmåtte around the jar.
Camellias
Photo: Jesper Carl Corfitzen
Camellias, Camellia japonica, is an evergreen shrub from coastal deciduous forest in China and the japanese islands. Surbundsplante that can be grown in conservatories, but also with the advantage surbundsbedet as bush.
A part is fully hardy to the Danish climate and have barely vinterbeskyttelse apart from the first year after planting. Can also be grown as krukkeplante on the terrace with surbundsjord.
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More exotic plants tolerate easily light frost, but it is their roots that do not tolerate frost. Thus, tub plants frostbeskyttes with bubble wrap or halmmåtte around the jar and thus to easily cope with the Danish winter.
In coastal gardens, you can grow far more frostsarte plants outdoors than in the gardens located in the inner parts of the country the pga. the mild winter temperatures.
part of the cultivated plants, we have already in use today in gardens, exotic with their origin and characteristics. For example raketblomst, Kniphofia (south Africa), the african skærmlilje, Agapanthus (south Africa), stringy it’s, Yucca fillamentosa (Caribbean), antarctic sydbøg, Nothofagus antarctica (Chile), rosemary, Rosmarinus officinalis (Middle east and Southern europe).
Eucalyptus
Photo: Jesper Carl Corfitzen
Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus pauciflora, also known under the name Snow Gum, is an evergreen tree to the terrace with beautiful silvery leaves.
Eucalyptus, originating from Australia, tolerate frost, but should vinterbeskyttes easy as krukkeplante with halmmåtte or bubble wrap. Can also are transplanted.
Beak Yucca
Photo: Jesper Carl Corfitzen
the Beak of the Yucca, Yucca rostrata, hardy yucca, that can easily be grown as krukkeplante and vinteropbevares under canopies, as it does not tolerate the vintervåde weather. The plant originates from Mexico and Texas in the UNITED states.
Tolerate rather fine cold, and are kept to the dry side through the winter.
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