We can choose ready-made solutions - we can order hoods or tarpaulins with delivery directly to your home. However, it is worth considering other options, including leaves that we have in our gardens anyway.
Natural leaf cover
In gardens with tall trees and shrubs, fall leaves are a real treasure.If they fall directly on shrubs or perennials growing under them, do not remove and rake them, because they will be a perfect cover for plants against winter frosts.Rake leaves from lawns and move them to places with low evergreen shrubs, such asFortune's euonymus, Dammer's cotoneaster, always green boxwood or creeping goltery.
Gently cover them by inserting the leaves between the shoots (they must not be pressed!). Rake leaves falling on the lawn before winter, because their thick layer will destroy it by spring.At the beginning of April, the leaves are gently removed from the bushes and transferred to compost, where they will turn into valuable fertilizer.
We protect low heather shrubs
Evergreen deciduous shrubs, such as heather, heather, dabecje, gorse, are very sensitive to drying, frosty winds that destroy plants.
At the end of November, we cover them with tunisz, i.e. cut branches made of coniferous trees and shrubs, always green (spruce, junipers, thuja).It is perfectly permeable to air and rainfall, it is a very good cover that protects against winds and drops in low temperatures.We take off Stroisz in early spring.
Hydrangeas protected against frost
Hydrangeas: garden, sawtooth, oak-leaved and shaggy flower buds in the summer of the year preceding flowering.Unfortunately, in winter the flower buds of these species are prone to freezing.It is very important to cover the shrubs at the end of November.
A white non-woven fabric is best for this. It is an ideal material because it allows air to pass through. We wrap the bushes in two or three layers and tie them with string. Another solution will be to surround a group of hydrangea bushes with a low, about 80-cm fence made of agrotextile, which will allow the snow to accumulate under the bushes, because it will prevent it from blowing away.This cover will also protect against drying and frosty winds.
Ornamental grasses prepared for winter
Grasses and sedges are a very fashionable group of garden plants.Unfortunately, some species may freeze during snowless winters.Those that require special protection are Japanese feathers, Buchanan's sedge, miscanthus: sugar, Chinese and giant miscanthus.
We protect them from winter by tying up the clumps in half. This method will protect the root stump from getting wet and freezing, and it will also protect the buds from which whole plants will regenerate. Tied clumps will also accumulate snow better.It will not be blown away and will be a perfect cover for these plants.Stems of ornamental grasses should be protected with a mound.
White non-woven and shading mesh
Heathers, heathers, dabecie and brukentalia are an interesting group of low shrubs from the heather family. They are very sensitive to winter temperature drops and strong, drying winds. Especially dangerous for them is the situation when the soil is frozen and they cannot take water from it.These shrubs are always green plants, therefore it is very important to hydrate them properly during the winter.
When there is no snow cover, rainfall and strong winds blow, these shrubs should be covered with coniferous wood.A white fleece or green shading net will be a good protection.It is not recommended to cover them with leaves.
We protect climbing roses
This group of roses requires protection in their entirety, because their shoots are long and flowering takes place on the side shoots, i.e. branches.Roses from this group should be protected by making a mound of compost, which will effectively protect the lower buds from which the shrubs will form shoots.
During severe winters, whole shoots may freeze, then new ones will grow from the sprinkled eyes. The upper sections of the shoots can be secured with a tuner or wrapped with a fleece several times. It is also possible to secure with a mulch of grass or shoots of cut miscanthus.The covered shoots, and above all the buds, will bloom profusely in the next season.
Holly bushes and laurels under the duvet
These are very attractive specimens that are always green and require a sheltered place in the garden.For the first few winters, young shrubs need to be protected for the winter after planting.The best protection is to wrap the plants with a thick white fleece, which protects them very effectively against cold, drying, eastern winds, as well as the winter sun.
