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Winter options planning

ashleymartin1982ashleymartin1982 Posts: 4
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Moved in in March 21. My rear garden is directly South facing in Kent and very bright and in summer hot. I grew olive trees on patio and they fruited and seemed to do pretty well. The Acer less well as I almost killed it. Full sun it struggled, shade it struggled. The other plants I bought were 3x citrus (lime, lemon, orange) and 1x fig in containers. They were slow to grow but picked up once I re potted.

For Winter do I need to just bring the citrus and acer indoors out of the frosts ? Or Can I get by with the South facing alone ?

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  • ashleymartin1982ashleymartin1982 Posts: 4

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    edited October 2021
    Acers need plenty of moisture - they're totally different in their requirements from something like an Olive.   :)
    Do you know what variety you have, and is it in a pot too?
    I don't grow any of the others, but other people on the forum do, so they might be able to help with that. Most people need to bring citrus indoors though. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    The citrus needs to come indoors, none of the rest do though. You might want to bring the olive trees closer to the house seeing as they're small and in pots.
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    edited October 2021
    Depending on the type of citrus,we have various lemons and a grapefruit,they go in a "cold" green house. The calamondins,and mandarins are very tender they come in to the conservatory. None of them are happy with central heating,too hot and dry.  They are trees after all. Acer's, being Japanese woodland plants, like semi shade,part shade,they hate hot mid day sun,and also suffer wind burn. Depending which part of Kent you are,if you are near East Sussex,my friend keeps her olives in her front garden. You might get away with sacking and bubble wrap,if you don't have a green house. Figs are normally OK, in the SE 
  • JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783
    I’m also south (east) facing Kent, I will be purchasing citrus and acers.  The acers will go in the ground in a NW facing corner so that they are protected from the sun in summer.  The citrus will stay in containers and go into an unheated summerhouse over winter for frost protection.
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