elephant's ear at zone 5 (close to zone 4)

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Finnish summer
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Location: Finnland, zone 5(a)

elephant's ear at zone 5 (close to zone 4)

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My bergenia (Bergenia cordifolia), it survived this winter with a low in the -30C range, more few dozen days below -20C. (no cover no other protection, ~60cm snowfell this winter and what did the job :D )

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Paul Ont
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Cold Finland is very similar to my climate (Zone 4), but I imagine that you lack summer heat?
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Paul Ont wrote:Cold Finland is very similar to my climate (Zone 4), but I imagine that you lack summer heat?
Southern Finland is similar to Riga.
Cold winters and cool summers with t really rarely over 30C.
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