10-04-2003, 06:20 AM
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will the freezing temps kill my plants?
(Frogleg) wrote in message ...
mike wrote
It has been above freezing for several weeks now and everything is
blooming and leafing out. But tonight it is going to get down to 26.
I have hostas, lots of irises, daylilly, roses, peonies and tons of
other perennials coming out of the ground and leafing back out. I do
not have much to cover my plants and I covered my roses first - what
types of things would be most likely to be killed? Or will it just
kill plants back and force them to come out again?
I was also concerned about my autumn olive which is blooming for the
first time. I assume it will kill the blooms and thus the fruit even
if no serious damage is done to the shrub itself. I hate late
freezes.
I live in west central Wisconsin. For the past eight years that I have
lived in this house, the irises and daylilies growing closest to the
house always manage to grow four or six inches and then we'll get a
snowstorm in late March or April and the temperatures will be below
freezing for days on end and maybe down around 10 degrees at night.
The daylilies and irises have bloomed normally the way they always do
in June. My other peonies don't start coming up until later, but the
one closest to house manages to grow two or three inches by the time
we get a late snowstorm and cold spell. The peony hasn't been
affected, either.
We've gotten frost in the middle of May, too, but the frost hasn't
affected the irises, daylilies or peonies. A frost in the middle of
May, however, does hurt the wild grapes, wild black cherry, the choke
cherry, the blackberries and the raspberries. If we get a frost in the
middle of May or later, we can forget about any fruit.
LeAnn
http://ruralroute2.com
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