I agree totally. I am on Long Island, and the temps here can get quite cold for long periods of time as well. Just down the Road from me (and am sure at my location as well) Temps have dropped into negaqtive double digits quite a few times in the past, cold enough for only Trifoliate Orange. Officially even that species is overtaxed by the record -23 below. Somehow the US government listed my section of Long Island as 7a :). But I digress. You are in 7b, but that is still cold enough to make most Citrus and related unsuitable for your region without protection, even Fortunella would have a hard time. I would reccomend once again temporary shelter. Maybe not designed as MtTexas has done, but something very similar. Actually I was thinking about the problem and think you could make something fairly modular & easy to erect. I don't think it would look to bad having it covered up for the cold months of Nov-Mar. Anyway I am writing up a small simple design which may help make it a bit easier to cover things up during the winter. I will post it shortly. VTY -Mark

Hello Clement The Pseudotsuga menziesii Greysteren is wrong it must be Gijsteren this is a Dutch broom from piet vergeldt I have many Pseudotsuga's in my collection I try to make this week photo's of them. Henk.

Thank you for the advice, I need to take reseeding into consideration. The ditch is barely a ditch, maybe 1'-2' across and carries very little water unless there is a heavy rain. It's water from a road but at the top of a hill, most of the water goes to the other side of the road. I had not planned on planting the grass between the road and ditch (this would be walking space) so no water would be passing from road surface through grass into the ditch. I also would not put it actually in the ditch itself. My main goal is to find a wildlife friendly planting which could as well eliminate our cost of professional mowing on the right of way. It's extremely low traffic! We have no native grass areas here, so I am trying to work one in. A meadow effect won't work since it is for a HOA, needs to be a bit more formal and one type of mass plant. I am just happy the HOA will take native/wildlife into consideration when landscaping so don't want to screw it up so they continue to do so. I'll keep looking for alternatives. I do plan on planting a bank on my own property with little bluestem the blues. I have some native now and love the winter appeal. My native stands up just fine.

water when a plant needs water ... insert a finger.. and find out how it all works in your soil ... some needle loss is not uncommon are transplanting ... and after the first winter.. the future is all in the buds.. and what they do this spring ... and you dont mention how big the transplant was .. nor if it was ball and burlap ... you need to provide pix if you want anything more than WAGS ... and no one can tell you how it works in your soil .... in your yard... in your area ... ken https://sites.google.com/site/tnarboretum/Home/planting-a-tree-or-shrub