Preparing Perennials For Winter in your Garden

What you need to get your flowerbeds ready for Winter

Perennials 

1. Take notes on where your plants 

• which plants are struggling and need to be moved, or are being overcrowded
• how they are growing 
• if there are any plants that need to be split in the spring
• location of all plants

2. Remove Weeds

• As perennials start to slow down, cold tolerant weeds start to appear
• This helps you in spring to have less weeds that need to be pulled out

3. Water Well 

• Keeping the soil moist right up to the time that the soil freezes is a great way to keep the plant roots alive overthe winter
• Try to wet the roots not the leaves or foliage 

4.Clean Up Damaged or Diseased foliage

• Cut back to the top of the soil and remove any diseased plant material from the yard 
• Leave healthy plants they can help insulate the plant roots over winter and feed birds and animals

5. Mulch Selective plants

• Mulch Newly planted perennials, since they have more tender roots
• Mulch perennials 5 or higher helps keep them warmer on cold days

The best time to mulch perennials is after the top 1-2 inches of soil has frozen. The mulch provides insulation, keeping the soil consistently cool through winter. 

Shredded leaves, bark chips, pine needles, and straw, is a good choice for helping perennials survive winter, alsways make sure not to use any plant material that was diseased or shows signs of and diseases. 

Evergreen Winter Care

1. Water your Evergreens right up until Mid-November, plants will store water in the soil like squirrels do with nuts

• The plants will use the water in the winter and gives them an extra boost in the spring

2. Use Wilt-pruf best ways to ensure that your tree doesn’t suffer from winter burn is to slow or reduce transpiration by using an anti-desiccant spray

• Evergreens continue to transpire/ sweat during the winter even when they are dormant
• wilt-pruf is an orangic  spray that creates a protective coating on the leaves or needles of the evergreen but won’t interfere with its natural processes and growth

3. Wrapping with Burlap 

• Younger trees need protection from harsh cold winds and salt spray
• it can be a loose wrap around each tree or you can create a burlap box with stakes

4. Winter Wrap 

• this is  netting that can go around trees to help hold there shape under heavy snow falls
• allows air flow through but keeps the branches from breaking 

4. Mulch

• Mulch at least 3 inches around your evergreen roots but leave space around main stem
• helps keep the plant warm during the winter

Although wrapping and covering trees and shrubs should wait until we get consistently cold weather in late October or early November, you should gather supplies now, so you are prepared when the weather turns

 

Pet Friendly Tropicals

Looking for a house plant that will not harm our furry friends then look no farther!

1. Pilea Peperomioides (Chinese Money Plant)

2. Pachira Aquatica (Money Tree)

3. Hoya 

4. Calathea ( Prayer Plant)

5. Maranata ( Prayer Plant)

6. Spider Plant

7. Peperomia Obtusifolia (Baby Rubber Plants) 

8. Neanthe Bella Palm (Parlor Palm)

9. Beaucarnea Recurvata (Pony Tail Palm)

10. Ferns (Bird's Nest, Boston, staghorn)

11. Cactus (Fishbone, Christmas)

12. Bromelaid 

13. Stromanthe Triostar

 

 

 

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Fungas Gnats are here to make sure you are prepared to win the battle with these little flies, stock up on insecticial soap, End All or water and touch of dish soap pair either of these products with sticky stiks or sticky traps. The spray kills the larve that can be found in the top layer of the soil while the traps catch the adults that float around your house. 

Tropical Plants Winter Care

Keep your tropical plants away from drafts, including heating and air-conditioning vents. Exposure to vents like this can cause them to develop yellow leaves prematurely. 

Because the days are shorter and temperatures are typically cooler, your overwintered tropicals won’t grow as much as they did outside. You won’t need to fertilize until spring, when the days get longer. 

Most overwintered tropical plants prefer the same temperatures we do: between 70 and 80ºF (21 and 27ºC) during the day and 55 and 65ºF (13 and 18ºC) at night.