Fall Gardening in my Japanese Garden, Preparing for Winter

[@kathymacomber5115]

I love your videos

[@m.k.9405]

Your collection of rare plants is amazing! Very beautiful place you have there! I love it😍

[@kathymacomber5115]

When I check my plants I relax..just as when I groom my cats

[@anamourao2983]

Paradise! One can only dream of...

[@robertfaber6796]

Time to find a Badminton racket and keep it handy in the garden. We used to use them against Yellow Jackets.

[@botanyboy1]

Hey Robert, my reaction when I see them is to leave the garden. These guys are bad news. Luckily, I usually only see one at a time in the garden.

[@canadianhaven]

Always apprweciate your videos. Looking forward to the next one. Take care!

[@botanyboy1]

There will be one in the next few weeks.

[@williampetrovich1998]

Happy New Year, from Yonkers Not crazy about Murder Hornets, in the camellia, but your ancient, African artichoke is cool.👍.

[@windhammer1237]

Beautiful collection

[@lindseymccaskey8402]

Love this

[@lindseymccaskey8402]

Love your work

[@viiiderekae]

I have the same type of clubmoss it really likes the tropical conditions here but it changes its fronds more often

[@botanyboy1]

They are really cool plants, but most are truly tropical so I can't grow them outside from mid-November thru April. We have a handful of cold resistant species here in Japan, but they are not nearly as spectacular looking.

[@amaterion7221]

👍👍👍👍👍♥️ nice

[@VersatileNature]

Nice video👌

[@artheinis7998]

Thanks for the video posting I wonder how low is the thempreture in the winter time In youre place .You and youre fam. stay healty and save see you in december in youre next video If Not have a nice Christmas hollyday

[@botanyboy1]

Rarely below -3 Celsius here. Normally we get around 14 days of below freezing mornings, but the high will usually get above 5 degrees. Sometimes it will stay below freezing for a couple days, however that is rare. The last couple winters have been ridiculously above normal, essentially without significant frost and virtually no snow. Have a great holiday season too!

[@openheart6113]

If you like ancient plants try the rare Angiopteris Evecta. It grows in isolated pockets in warm Queensland. And it's big I did grow them at one stage. What temperature is your winter? And how does you stag horn get though it.

[@botanyboy1]

I've not grown this one due to the size it gets, and it can't take the cold we typically get here in southern Japan. I have grown the native species A. lygodiifolia, but it too gave up after a prolonged cold period in January of 2011. The coldest it gets here is around -5 Celsius, but we can have months when the average temperature is 4 degrees or even lower, and that's when tropical stuff just dies outright. In 2011 I lost not just A. lygodiifolia, but also two tree ferns that have some cold hardiness, Alsophila australis and Alsophila dregei, as well as a number of epiphytic orchids, and two big specimens of Platycerium superbum. Most of these were established, healthy plants. The Platycerium bifurcatum you see in my videos has survived many cold events, but that 2011 event really knocked it back and another in 2016 nearly killed it.

[@kathymacomber5115]

In the early part of video was that eggs on that fern ( butterfly)?

[@botanyboy1]

Actually, those were the spore patterns (sori). This time of year all the ferns are usually thick with spore, and I tried to highlight that in this video.

[@XoroksComment]

I've read a few articles on those hornets. Scientists have recently found and destroyed several nests in British Columbia and Washington. They're worried that the hornets might establish themselves as an invasive species. If I remember correctly the nests came from genetically different populations, which means there might've been several separate introductions. www.cbsnews.com/news/murder-hornets-85-killed-13-captured-alive-washington-state/

[@botanyboy1]

They are nasty things, that's for sure. I pray they don't more established in the Americas, but I guess that isn't likely. They are MONSTER size and their impact on native bees, wasps and hornets worries me.

[@kathymacomber5115]

How are you impacted by the virus?

[@botanyboy1]

Personally, so far, no. I did come down with a cold just last night, typical for me this time of year. No fever so far, just typical cold symptoms. I am taking it day by day to see if it manifests anything more alarming.