Do you know any plants that can survive through a winter in Beijing?

I'm doing a Personal Project on my IB diploma and I'm gonna plant a garden, the bad thing is that i don't think that it could survive trough the winter in Beijing, and less if I'm out on vacation, i need to know a list of plants that are easy to take care of and that would survive 3 or 4 months on an average temperature of 5-10 degrees. Thx 4 everything!

Do you know any plants that can survive through a winter in Beijing?
You can check what the Beijing Botanical Garden grows:

http://www.beijingbg.com/english/s.asp



how to find out what you can grow:

find your "zone".

since you know your minimum temperatures, then you know your zone if you look at the "hardiness" charts.

beijing is zone 7.

http://www.richters.com/newdisplay.cgi?p...



Now look on the internet for "zone 7" flowers, vegetables, trees bushes whatever u r looking for. And you will find lists of plants that can survive a zone 7 winter.



You can do edible landscaping%26lt;good for a dude on a budget, nature habitat, traditonal Chinese (like bonsaii or formal garden), endangered species, experimental..all types of themes.



If you want to plant a summer vegetable garden, then you will have to check what your freeze dates will be. Like the last day it freezes in the spring and the first freeze date of the fall.

http://www.worldclimate.com/cgi-bin/data...

first of April

end of October

or so for Beijing at sea level



count backwards xnumberofweeks so you know when to start your transplants. keep them one inch below a flourescent shop light and they grow very well. "harden them off" get them used to being outside bit by bit for a week. plant them. give them a temporary shade shelter for three days and water them each day%26lt;all will survive if you do this and there will be no transplant shock either.



As far as taking care of watering while u are gone; you can use a drip hose and a timer. Drip hoses can also be gravity fed%26gt;amount of drip dependent on drip hole/emitter size%26lt;some people just stuff a shirt in the end of a hose.



if u put the fertilizers in the soil or if u use an "inline emitter" with your water line (to emit/dispense liquid fertilizer)%26lt;that is how you make fully automatic systems.

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