Hi Wahaj. I've no personal experience with this plant but a previous neighbour had one growing outside for years. It looked really happy and healthy. Mind you, it was in a sheltered, south facing bed - and we don't often get really hard winter weather in Worthing. I don't remember what happened to it - they may have taken it with them when they moved. Hope this helps a bit.
thanks for the advice on that one.
i'm trying to make a winter interest bed just in front of the patio doors. something to look at with the fire on, on a cold winter's day.
it's in front of fence, so on the fence i'll have the yellow winter jasmine, virginia creeper and firethorn climbing up it. in front of it i have a large berberis bush that transforms it's leaves into little petals of fire in autumn and then has lots of little red berries on in the winter. next to this will be some heavenly bamboo, nandina i think it's called...which again has beautiful firey winter colours. in the foreground will also be a chinese dogwood.
next to that will be a forsethia which shall burst into colour in early spring with it's little yellow flowers. next to that will be a vibernam called dawn that has scented flowers in window on it's bare stems....and hopefully also a witch hazel with it's lovely orange and yellow flowers in winter. on a trellis in a pot i should have the winter clemetis "freckles" which has lovelt white and pink patched flowers and maybe a yellow flowering mahonia behind it. underneath on the ground level i shall have yellow and orange pansies, yellow, orange and red primroses, some hot coloured bellis, winter aconites and red cyclamens. dotted around amoungst them shall be the winter cherries.
ah i can't wait to create that border lol.
