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This is our selection of plants that can stand some cold. Some will only resist to cool weather and light frost, but some others will take hard frost in colder climates. They are all very different but they deserve to be tried because all these tropical-looking plants have non tropical requirements. They will surely thrive outdoors in coastal Mediterranean climates or in a mildly heated greenhouse where frost does not occur.
2 years old, 20-30 cm tall. This Dioon is elegant and different, with a stout trunk and glowing blue arching leaves with "V"arranged leaflets. It was described in 2003 and it is also frost hardy. Seeds are hard to find and awfully expensive, but we got a few for our nursery.
2 years old, 20-30 cm tall. This Dioon is elegant and different, with glowing blue arching leaves with "V"arranged leaflets
5 years. 40-70 cm tall. 5-6 cm base. Large grey-leaved cycad native to high elevation pine-oak forests in Mexico. Trunks can reach 6 m. Leaves are stiff, long and flat, densely woolly during development. Easy to grow, with moderate frost hardiness
Chinese yam is a large climbing plant with arrow-shaped leaves. The tubers are cylindrical, with lots of tiny bumbs., They edible and usually cooked, but they can also be eaten raw. The plant is hardy to -17 C.
The giant spear lily grows as a moncarpic rosette like an agave, but has floppy spineless leaves up to 2 or 3 m long. It will eventually bloom with a bright red flowering structure, up to 3 to 5 meters tall.
This is a supreme clone of Dyckia fosteriana, with bronze coloured rosettes. It is a cold-resistant bromeliad from the rocky mountains of Paraná, in South Brazil.
Cont.= 8,5 cm. This Echeveria from Hidalgo, Mexico, can take frost to about -4 C. It is a Clumping plant with rosettes of 10-18 cm in diameter and crimson-pink flowers. Albicans means "Whitening" because some parts are almost white.
NEW! Cont. = 8 cm . Elegant species with pale silver-green rosettes and coral-pink flowers with yellow tips . It is a cold hardy Echeveria native to Hidalgo, in NW Mexico.
NEW! - Cont.= 8,5 cm. Different from most echeverias because of the blue, thick cylindrical leaves. It is native to Hidalgo, in Mexico and will take light frost if kept dry in winter.
Beautiful caudex plant native to South Africa. It has an elegant mimosa-like foliage and builds an underground caudex to at least 30 cm in diameter.
This exciting ornamental is a cold-hardy mountain banana-relative, native to China. It grows banana-like leaves to height of about 1,5 m, and then blooms with a showy golden "artichoke", lasting for months.
This "mountain banana" comes from high-elevation tropical Africa and bears enomous leaves with a solid red rachis. It grows well in warm temperate and Mediterranean climates. It is not a true banana of the genus Musa, so its fruits are not edible. Nevertheless, in Africa the corms are regularly collected and eaten.
Very ornamental small cactus from the SW USA and Mexico, coated with white unharmful spines. It blooms in late winter with pale pink flowers that are soon followed by some very attractive frutis, which are dark pink, glossy and last form months!
Commerial Spanish cultivar with round orange fruits, juicy with sweet, not-too-acid flavour. The tree is robust, with an erect crown, averaging 3 shoots per central shoot. Japanese Loquat is an excellent tree combining beauty and good-tasting fruits.
Grafted tree. Spanish cultivar with very large, smooth, juicy fruits of "Japanese loquat", with a pale colour. The perfect fruit tree for the home garden, with sweet and acid fruits and very ornamental foliage. Fully hardy to about -7 C but also survives to about -17 C.
Tanaka is a late-bearer and has rounded large fruits of good quality, sweet, thin-skinned. It is is self-fertile, even though it will bear more fruits if crossed with other cultivars of Loquat.
1-2 year old seedling. This "Dwarf Coral Tree" is native to Natal, in South Africa. It is a densely branched deciduous shrub, with scarlet flowers on black flower stalks, standing above the foliage during a long time. It is suited to mediterranean climates and takes light frosts.
A classic of subtropical gardening. This is one of the cold-hardiest coral-trees and it is quite easy to grow and bloom, with fabulous sprays of large coral-red flowers. It can be a small shrub to a tree of 10 or more meters in height.
This Dwarf Coral Tree is native to Arizona, New Mexico and Mexico. It is a shrub with white bark, erect growth and truly showy scarlet flowers. It is suited to warm temperatate to subtropical climates. Its small size and frost resistance ( to about -6 C !) make it suitable for Northern latitudes.
Dwarf Coral Tree is native to Natal, in South Africa. It is a densely branched deciduous shrub, with scarlet flowers on black flower stalks, standing above the foliage during a long time. It is suited to mediterranean climates and takes light frosts.
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