The cold winter of 2009/2010 killed many non-native plants, but take a risk with the Acacia

WE lost the run of ourselves in Ireland for a number of years, didn’t we? 

We thought we were untouchable and that things would never go wrong, but then, of course, it all changed — and the extreme cold of early 2010 knocked out so many of our garden plants.

Plants that we knew, deep down, weren’t suitable to be grown outdoors in Ireland, Gulf Stream or no, but which had survived several years in our gardens came to a frosty end in 2009/2010 .