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Evergreen shrub winter sunburn
I have about a dozen various evergreen shrubs and two dozen Colorado
Blue Spruce saplings that receive full sun all winter. A few weeks ago, I noticed that the yews and saplings were all yellowing on the tips and not looking real healthy. I trekked out in the below zero temps and covered them ALL with burlap to help them through the rest of the winter. Is there anything else I can do to mitigate the effects of the sun and more cold temps that we may get hit with? At this point, I'm just planning to give them a good drink and remove the burlap as soon as the frost comes up. In the future, I'll try to give them even more water in the fall, but right now I'm just hoping that they make it to see another fall! :-| - Shiltsy |
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Evergreen shrub winter sunburn
This usually happens because the plants were not watered well in the late fall.
Burlap dosent do crap. If you went outside with burlap wrapped arround you, would it protect you?? Toad |
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Evergreen shrub winter sunburn
Burlap dosent do crap. If you went outside with burlap wrapped arround you,
would it protect you?? I agree that they probably didn't get enough water in the fall, but I don't agree that providing burlap shade "doesnt do crap". From what I understand, full sun can cause plants to lose moisture through their leaves more rapidly. If the burlap is applied before the plants are burned, they can retain enough moisture to hold them over until the ground frost is up and I can water. |
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"Ann" wrote in message
... (Marley1372) expounded: This usually happens because the plants were not watered well in the late fall. Burlap dosent do crap. If you went outside with burlap wrapped arround you, would it protect you?? If the problem was winter windburn, yes, it would protect me. Ann, Gardening in zone 6a Just south of Boston, MA ************************ Uh huh! ;-) BTW, my wife bought a pot of Carolina jasmine two years ago, which froze to a frazzle as it was about to bloom last March. Deciding that she still wanted blooms, she bought four yards of burlap this past fall (three times the price of the plant) and made me help cover it last fall. We took the burlap off this week, and it's loaded with buds, but I'm not betting they will survive a cold spell in the upcoming week. Anyway, she's happy that they haven't frozen - yet! John |
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Evergreen shrub winter sunburn
"B & J" expounded:
Uh huh! ;-) BTW, my wife bought a pot of Carolina jasmine two years ago, which froze to a frazzle as it was about to bloom last March. Deciding that she still wanted blooms, she bought four yards of burlap this past fall (three times the price of the plant) and made me help cover it last fall. We took the burlap off this week, and it's loaded with buds, but I'm not betting they will survive a cold spell in the upcoming week. Anyway, she's happy that they haven't frozen - yet! I have old bedsheets I use for frost protection, I don't have anything that's borderline tender. But get out there and cover it back up! Even draping a sheet over it will offer some protection. Better than losing all those lovely flowers! G -- Ann, Gardening in zone 6a Just south of Boston, MA ******************************** |
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Evergreen shrub winter sunburn
Winter "sun" burn is more commonly a desicating wind-burn. Planting a few
other things in the area so that several shrubs serve as windbreaks for one another often does the trick, or planting something leeside that doesn't suffer from windburn. -paghat the ratgirl -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ |
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