Dr. Moon shares new varieties of plants that can be added to the landscape to provide interest and color and that performed well in the 2021 freeze.
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February Freeze Event
The February freeze event was devastating to trees. The extended cold weather severely damaged the vascular system of the trees and froze the buds on branches causing trees to die. The freezing temperatures caused the water in the cells to freeze and expand destroying buds and vascular systems.
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Tree Care Following February Freeze Event
Many of the complications for trees from the February freeze event this year have just begun to appear. As temperatures increase this summer, damaged trees will start to show more problems.
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Spring Gardening
This is the time of the year that you need to start paying attention to your yard. If you do the following 4 things, you will set your landscape up for success through the remainder of the year and avoid most weeds and sprinting away from fire ants.
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Tree Damage from February Freeze Event
There are many questions about why some trees in the same block or surrounding area are fully leafed out following the freezing event in February and why some trees are struggling to come out. The answer to this is complicated. Oak trees are propagated from acorns and each tree can have a different progeny. Trees are like us. We are all human but have a different gene pool and just as we react differently to stress and disease, so do these trees. Some trees of the same species are more tolerant to the stress of the freezing temperatures.
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Freeze Damage on Evergreen Trees!
Many of you have Italian Cypress, Cedar or Juniper plants that suffered from the recent freezing event. The damage is just now showing up on these plants. If your plants have damage, you will first see branches turning gray and discolored followed by these branches turning brown. If these trees turn brown, they die and they will not re-grow easily. This damage creates big, open areas or voids in the plants which are very unsightly.
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