On Friday, October 30, 2015 at 6:12:39 AM UTC-7, S Viemeister wrote:
> On 10/30/2015 5:14 AM, Ophelia wrote:
> > "S Viemeister" > wrote
> >> On 10/29/2015 5:18 PM, Ophelia wrote:
> >>> It won't overwinter in my bit of Scotland.
> >>>
> >> It does in mine, even though we're so much farther north than you, but we
> >> have a lovely little micro-climate.
> >> I have it planted against a south-facing wall.
> >
> > Lucky you Mine doesn't actually die off but it looks very unhappy
> > and it doesn't recover properly so I always replace it. This year I
> > have it in tub and it is in a very sheltered corner so I'll see how it
> > does.
> >
> I have it in a big double-walled pot in my NJ garden, and most years it
> does fine, but a year or two ago we had a terrible winter, and I had to
> replace most of my herbs - except for the sage. I also lost some lovely
> old roses.

That is really too bad. But it triggered a memory:
My dad would cover the rose bushes with straw, then wrap them in burlap
when I was a kid. Later they came out with styrofoam rose cones.

My wife remembers that when she was a kid, her father tried growing
a fig tree. For winter, he would bend the crown to the ground, and cover
it with mulch.