Just managed to get Doors open

My greenhouse doors have been frozen solid for weeks and finally got them open today.

 

I brought eight orleanders and four loropetalum chinensis black pearl in pots into the shed a couple of weeks ago, the compost still froze. I brought them back out today, they'd "unfrozen" and the soil was stll moist, but I thought I'd let them enjoy a drop of rain.

 

That's quite lucky, it rained, then froze then pushed my doors half off the greenhouse so it's duct-tape madness out there-mind you, it goes with the rest of the greenhouse I s'pose.

 

Hello, Doghouse .. . you just bought eight orleaders? is that Oleanders? I really don't think they will survive with you .... certainly not flower.

Your Witch Hazel will probably do nicely ... fancy one of those myself.

 

Yes, I did say orleanders, I bought them a couple of months back, from Ideal World (a request by my wife).
If they don't flower, we'll be getting our money back, but I've no doubt that as they say they will, they will.
With a company that size, they can't afford for them not to.