Will It Survive The Cold Snaps?
Almost anything (except the plants that can't take a lot of sun and heat) will thrive in TV. That's not the problem. The issue is those few nights every winter where it gets close to or a little below freezing. That will take its toll on some of the less mature and more tropical plants.
In our case, we have split leaf, Hawaiian Tai, gardenia, palm trees and lots of hibiscus plants supplementing TV landscaping. We cover some on cold nights and have concluded that we'll just replace the others that get nipped by the cold. At first I resisted the idea of replacing the hibiscus I love. But then I thought of how much we used to spend on annuals up north. Really nice hibiscus plants are available everywhere for less than $10 each. So we concluded, what's the big deal? We try to protect the tree hibiscus, but any of the others that get nipped simply get replaced after the chance of frost goes away.
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