If you're going to "test the limits" you have to be willing to take a few losses. That was the point of my previous blog post (see Testing the limits... and finding them: 2014-2015 losers) when I wrote about the plants I lost last winter, which along with 2013-2014 brought my area's two coldest winters in 20 years. Each of those two winters, on its own, wasn't so unusual; we get winters like that every 10-15 years and we were several years overdue. What was unusual was getting two such winters back to back. That makes the survivors all the more special to me. They don't necessarily look their best this year, but considering the minimal protection I gave them I'm more than happy.
