Michael Dreyer with Lehigh Valley Home and Garden Center said these frigid temperatures are hard on a lot of plants.<\/p>\n
“There’s a lot of different plants- your crape myrtles, hibiscus, your camellias are already kind of marginally hardy,” said Dreyer.<\/p>\n
He said the snow is good for others.<\/p>\n
“It’s bad for some of the larger plants with heavy amounts of snow and ice constantly on it can break branches, so it’s bad for that part, but dealing with the cold temperatures it’s actually a little bit more helpful than being just exposed to the environment,” said Dreyer.<\/p>\n
Dreyer said there are some things you can do.<\/p>\n
He said evergreens are one of the trees to keep an eye on in the cold.<\/p>\n
“They hold a lot of moisture in their foliage, so normally wrapping them with burlap early on in the season or spraying with an anti-desiccant, like Wilt Stop or Wilt Proof is really good. Helps keep the moisture in the leaves, reduces browning,” said Dreyer.<\/p>\n
“The main concern would be evergreens, anything with leaves or needles right now could actually burn in the winter winds,” said Ken Gretz, Manager at Tilly’s Nursery Garden Center in Coopersburg.<\/p>\n
Gretz said deer are another concern amid these weather conditions.<\/p>\n
“There’s nowhere for them to get any food other than what’s sticking out of the ground and green,” said Gretz.<\/p>\n
Gretz said deer are as much of a concern as the winter winds.<\/p>\n
“If we start getting high winds when the temperature drops again, that’s definitely a concern. Some of these plants will recover and others will not,” said Gretz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Dreyer with Lehigh Valley Home and Garden Center said these frigid temperatures are hard on a lot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,50563,50562,28124,25024,50560,50564,25454,14834,50565,50561],"class_list":{"0":"post-104971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-anti-desiccant","12":"tag-burlap-wrapping","13":"tag-cold-weather","14":"tag-deer","15":"tag-evergreens","16":"tag-lehigh-valley-home-and-garden-center","17":"tag-plants","18":"tag-snow","19":"tag-tilly","20":"tag-winter-winds"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}