We have many landscape plants that show heavy frost damage from several long nights of frost. Just some of these include:
Several blue flowering potatoe bushes where all the leaves have wilted and turned brown.... (plants were about 3 or 4 years old)...
Several tall 20 ft "cherry" bushs that have all turned completely brown from frost. These are not real cherrys but just those little cherries that the birds eat. These are very tall thin plants. I don't know the real name for them.
Plus we have many bouganvalias that have also lost every leaf due to frost.
Finally my concern includes a beautiful 5 year old ficus tree that has really been the crown jewl of our landscaping. This tree has had every leaf turn completely brown and become wilted (except for just 3 leaves on the underside of the tree)...
Can I dare to hope that our landscaping and plants will revive themselves - somehow? What should I do to help them?
I greatly appreciate any help that you can provide
2007-01-27 10:05:15 · 2 answers · asked by Paul H 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Go to your close's store and buy a few bottles of Fungicide and go to work. I grow plants for a nursery in Atlanta, we lost our heat in our begonia house, everything melted. The fungicide will protect you plants from bacteria and help to repair the damaged cell walls of you plants. Probably want be able to tell about cutting any thing back until the beginning of warm weather and then the new growth will sprout, cut off any branch or stem that doen not have new green growth. The key to keeping your plants alive, is whether or not the roots died during the cold snap. Your smaller plants with shallow root may of suffered the most, but your trees should recover and live to tell about it. Chin up and be patient. Happy Growing!!!!!!
2007-01-27 11:02:42 · answer #1 · answered by watergoddess53 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's best to leave them alone for now. Look forward to how happy you will be when some of them recover by themselves.
The now dead stuff gives the plants a tiny bit of protection against any cold spells that may yet come up.
2007-01-27 19:00:53 · answer #2 · answered by Ed 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋