posted 6 years ago
Thanks Crt! The peach/apricot microclimate is fully occupied. The neat thing about that microclimate is that it's in the shade of some tall conifers until well into spring. That leaves snow around them for an extra three weeks which I hope will delay their flowering. Hopefully they'll make it, I just planted them in the last couple of years.
I do already have a wide variety of things planted that should live here (hazelnuts, butternuts, apples, gooseberry, haskap, currants, hardy kiwi, grape, elderberry, highbush cranberry, seaberry, plums, serviceberry, cornelian and nanking cherry) or could live if I'm lucky (shagbark hickory, mulberry, hawthorn, gogi).
I figure I might as well attempt to push the zone a bit more with these sun traps.
Thanks L. Tims, I'll check into those!