Can Phragmites tolerate subzero nights?
I want to put some in my refurbed aviary, but we will likely have frosts until about Melbourne Cup day, so I'm wondering if I should wait 'til November.
Thanks in advance,
mm.
Phragmites question.
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If you are planting them in a water filled container and the water doesn't freeze solid, I would think that they would survive the winter once established. (We are talking reeds here people)
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Sorry for the latin, but I don't know the common name.
jusdeb wrote:phragmites =stalagnites
Sorry for the latin, but I don't know the common name.
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I thought they might have been insects, till I read Tint's comment about water, then I totally just knew they were fishes!
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For the record, Phragmites tubers do survive in freezing water.
They are shooting now and I have moved them into the aviaries. The water in the bins they are in attracts/generates some little flying insects which the birds appreciate, and I have put mesh across the top of the bins (to avoid drowning birds) which the reeds can grow through.
They are shooting now and I have moved them into the aviaries. The water in the bins they are in attracts/generates some little flying insects which the birds appreciate, and I have put mesh across the top of the bins (to avoid drowning birds) which the reeds can grow through.
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Avid amateur aviculturalist; I keep mostly australian and foreign finches.
The art is long, the life so short; the critical moment is fleeting and experience can be misleading, crisis is difficult....... (Hippocrates)
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