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A Little About Frozen Plants
For LA, GA, north FL, AL, TX... 🥶🥶🥶
If you are/were in an area that received an unexpected snowfall and cold temperatures, please wait to assess your plants - your full-sized plants and your miniature garden
plants.
If the top of the plant has gone brown or is looking very sad, just wait.
Many plants are still alive under the soil and are more than willing to grow back from the roots, so wait for the warmer weather to see if that plant will come back on its own. Once you are
well-into spring, or at least a few weeks into it, and you should be able to see that it isn't going to bounce-back - meaning there is no new growth - then you can replace it.
For woody-stemmed plants that dropped their leaves during the uncivilized cold temperatures, you can quickly and easily see if they are still alive. Scrape a
small piece of bark off the stem to see the wood underneath it. If it's green, it's still alive. If it's brown, you know that branch is dead BUT check again further-down on the stem or trunk to see if it's there is any life before giving up on it completely.
Remember, as gardeners, we know that for every plant that doesn't make through the winter, it only leaves room for
more NEW PLANTS. And I guess that makes us all optimists. Lol!
