Winter protection

How do you protect your plants for winter? Do you find bubble wrap, cloches or fleeces best?
In a small "trial" of fleece bags last week I read that the "Verve" ones from B & Q came out trumps for strength, protection and being well made.

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For me the twin wall Polycarbonate sheeting does it
Once up it stays in situ and allows the plants to grow.

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I don't really have anything to protect apart from the fruit and vegetables my garden consists of hardy herbaceous plants and shrubs.

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We just cut everything down to tidy it all up and cross our fingers, I can't imagine fleece would protect it from the real dangers here (postman cycling over the border and kids walking all over it ).

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We protect nothing, after the last few really hard winters we decided that if a plant isn't hardy it just doesn't survive and we dig it up and dump it

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You all make me sound as I fuss about too much.
I wrap all the tubs in bubble wrap, and if its really frosty I throw fleece over my Agapanthus too. I have only got a small garden where I live now, so have to grow the 'overspill' in pots and tubs and I don't want roots freezing.

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Sorry Mups, should have added that anything that is tender we keep in pots and bring them indoors over the frosty months...

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We use our frost free greenhouse (temp. about 5C) for geraniums and fuchsias etc., but we do have two palms, either side of the patio in large terracotta pots that we wrap in fleece - far too heavy to move down the garden to the greenhouse each winter.

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....and I forgot my Lady Boothby climbing fuchsia. It is dying back each winter now so only reaches a certain height by summer, so we are fleecing it, in the hope that we can get it to reach the top of next doors fence

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The only thing I lose every year is sage, I don't know why I use a lot in cooking at it really annoys me to have to buy it..