In order to avoid frost damage to your young ginkgo, we recommend a frost-free overwintering. Ideally, you should therefore cultivate the tree in a pot or bucket for a few years. This saves you the work of input and Transplanting in spring and autumn.
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The wintering of potted plants
A Ginkgo in a pot or bucket should overwinter frost-free. If the winter quarters are too warm for your ginkgo, it may sprout again quite early in the year. However, these shoots are not very robust. It is therefore important to avoid this early budding by keeping the roost cool. Temperatures around + 5 ° C are ideal.
If you do not have suitable winter quarters (winter garden, cellar or greenhouse), you can also store your ginkgo in a sheltered one Location overwinter outside in the garden. However, the root ball must be wrapped around the pot (cover, Burlap sack,(€ 11.16 at Amazon *) Bubble wrap) must be well protected from frost.
The essentials in brief:
- sensitive to frost in the first few years
- Frost-free wintering is recommended
- later very well tolerated by frost down to around - 28 ° C
- then no special winter protection is necessary, exception: container plants
- Protect the root ball from frostbite by wrapping it
- occasional frostbite on young shoots
Tips
If you only plant your ginkgo outdoors after a few years, it will survive normal central European winters even without special winter protection.
