Wrapping for Winter.

Winter has passed, you may say. The Spring Equinox is 20th March, but winter still has a grip.

The other day I got an email from the lovely man at Hardy Palms where I bought most of my rather expensive palms from. He advised as we were due to have a long spell of extremely cold weather, we should wrap up our palms.

Normally they cope well, as the temps go down to minus something, then up during the day to single figures. But this next week we are due to have sustained minus figures day and night.

So a bit of work was needed today.

These are the covers that have got us through so far.

They have not done too badly.

So I unwrapped my new Butia and it is looking good. I have to protect the growing tip and Mr Hardy Palms recommended wrapping a duvet around it. I had a suitcase full of single duvets that we used to use when my sister and her 3 girls used  when they where little and came for a visit.

So being ingenious, I cut them in half length ways and sewed along the cut seam, which made them more manageable to wrap around.

Doesn't it look cosy now.

My other Butia, before

and then after..

and finally my Brahea Armata with a new spear growing

sadly I forgot to take a photo of it all snuggled up in its duvet, but it is.

My Olives have also been wrapped up.

All we can do now is wait and see if they survive.