On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 12:09:39 +0000, Kay Easton
wrote:

In article , Craig &
Audrey writes
I have just moved into a property that has a small garden. All the plants
appear to be dead, but how do I know if there or not ?

Green insides to stems = alive
Brown = dead

What about peonies and many other herbaceous plants that die back
to the ground in winter?

At this season, it's perhaps wiser to think something is may
still be alive, even though the stems are brown.

If you are tidiness minded, better to just clip off the dead
topgrowth now. In spring the ones that are still alive will
reappear.


--
Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada