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Cold, wet, windy winter weather can damage trees, shrubs and garden structures such as trellis. Improving shelter, staking plants, mulching, wrapping pots and careful matching of plants to places will help to prevent this kind of damage.
- Use A Cold Frame
- Cover with Cloches
- Bring Plants Inside
- Lift and Store
- Tender Palms
- Create Protective Tents
- Protecting Bananas
Young hardy plants, including autumn-sown hardy annuals, hardy shrub cuttings and seed-raised perennials, will benefit from the shelter of a cold frame over winter. Open the lid on warm days to prevent overheating and deter fungal diseases.
Giving winter crops protection from the worst frost and wind can make all the difference to their survival, and may even allow small harvests. Use cloches to protect broad beans, curley parsley, hardy lettuces, peas, salad leaves, spinach and Swiss chard.
A frost-free greenhouse is invaluable for wide range of plants. Insulate it with bubble wrap to retain heat and bring in abutilons, aeoniums, agapanthus, citrus, echeverias, fuchsias, pelargoniums and salvias. Conservatories and porches can also be used.
Tender perennials that have spent the summer in borders can be lifted as soon as frost has checked their growth. Store the roots in a cool but frost-free place. Do this for cannas, ginger lilies, chocolate cosmos, dahlias, gladioli and tuberous begonias.
Protect palms by tying in the leaves to protect the growing point. In cold regions this can be loosely packed with straw for extra insulation.
Push bamboo canes into the ground around the plant to be protected, and cover with horticultural fleece or bubblewrap to create a protective tent. Use string to secure it to the canes. For potted plants, wrap the pot with bubblewrap, then drape horticultural fleece over the top, and secure with string.
Protect the stems of bananaplants with straw or bark, packed loosely into a sleeve of chicken wire placed around the plant. Cover the top with polythene in wet weather to keep the straw dry.
- BBC Gardeners' World Magazine
- BBC Gardeners' World Magazine
- Take a broom and knock snow off plants, before it freezes. This prevents sagging and broken branches under the weight of the snow. Be sure to knock snow off hedges and specimen trees and shrubs, as well as mound-forming evergreens such as hebe, which all suffer irreparable damage from heavy snowfall.
- Protect greenhouse plants by lining the greenhouse with bubble wrap and consider using a paraffin heater to keep your most tender plants warm. You can create partitions within the greenhouse by making 'curtains' using bubble wrap or horticultural fleece.
- On the vegetable patch, protect carrots, parsnips and other root crops with a blanket of straw, to stop the ground freezing around them. This will enable you to continue to harvest them when required.
- Move tender succulents, including aeoniums, aloes and echeverias, into a frost-free location in full sun, such as a heated greenhouse, conservatory or south-facing windowsill.
Mar 18, 2020 · We reveal which plants you need to protect over a UK winter and how to do it, to help ensure their survival – with help from BBC Gardeners' World Magazine.
- BBC Gardeners' World Magazine
- Protect delicate plants with plastic bottles. You don't have to spend a fortune to protect plants from frost; you can actually recycle old plastic bottles to keep them safe in the harsh winter weather.
- Wrap plants in fleece to protect from frost. ‘Larger, more tender plants may need fleecing to help protect them from the cold and frost, especially if there is a forecast drop in temperature,’ says Andrew Lawson, head gardener at the world-famous Tresco Abbey Garden.
- Bring pots inside to protect them from cold. Overwintering is one of the best ways to protect plants from frost, but it's also worth remembering that you can move potted plants indoors if a frost warning has been issued, as long as the pots aren’t too heavy to lift.
- Spray garlic around your plants. You might know how to grow garlic already, but did you also know that this delicious vegetable is a tried-and-tested way to protect plants from frost?
Nov 4, 2020 · Top tips on how to protect your garden plants from wind, rain, frost and snow, plus other garden jobs for winter: planning, planting and helping wildlife.
Jan 2, 2022 · Ways to protect plants from frost. Whether you are growing plants in the ground in flower beds or borders, in raised beds, or as part of container gardens, there are ways to protect them from frost frosts. We look at 10 quick and simple methods to safeguard your plants this winter. 1. Bring potted plants indoors.
