Landscape & Potted Plants:
Cold weather is here this week! Here are a few helpful hints from our nursery staff to help keep your plants happy all winter long.
Your potted plants should be brought inside for protection! If you cannot move them indoors, cover them with cloth (not plastic! It can burn leaves!!) like row covers, sheets, and/or blankets.
Planted plants like cool-season annuals, herbs, and vegetables should also be covered, and root crops' foliage should be protected.
Shade and fruit trees should be perfectly fine, but you’ll want to protect your blueberries, citrus, lemons, limes, and avocados from freezing temperatures!
Native and adapted, cold-hardy shrubs and perennials, CAN be covered if you are worried but it is NOT necessary as long as the soil is NOT dry! Before a winter storm, we highly recommend that your hardy trees, shrubs, ornamental grasses, lawns, and perennials receive a deep irrigation soaking to prevent cold air from penetrating the soil. Applying 2-4 inches of mulch around newly planted (late-summer or fall) hardy plants is very beneficial as well.
Cold-hardy landscape cacti and woody lilies (Agaves, yuccas, Hepsealoes, etc.) prefer the opposite. They like dry soil when temperatures drop low. Do not worry about watering these landscape plants.
Keep an eye on your pets, pipes, and people too!!!
