Monday, November 16, 2009

Please help! What is the best way to cover flowers?

I don't want my peonies, irises, and lilacs to freeze tonight! =(

Please help! What is the best way to cover flowers?
Most of all, take the covers off the next morning before it gets warm or the flowers will roast.
Reply:Use a large bucket or a cardboard box is the best or a paper bag. I wouldn't advise using a plastic bag because the plastic conveys the cold to the plant and freezes the parts touching the plant. Or you can use newspaper and anchor it with rocks so the wind doesn't blow it off. If it only gets to around 34-35 I wouldn't worry about covering them...the plants you mentioned are pretty cold hardy. Anything less than that I would cover them just to make sure.
Reply:pretty much anything. sheets or a light blanket or a comforter or a tablecloth or anything that is big enough.


Since there are no flowers on the peonies ( i presume) you can just throw it over.





I probably would not be too concerned about covering the lilacs though. They seem to be able to handle these cold snaps quite admirably. They just stop and then take a few days to start up again.
Reply:Fabric, cardboard boxes or newspaper. DO NOT USE PLASTIC -- the parts touching the plastic will freeze.





Typically, when I get into these sorts of situations, I reach for the old towels, old sheets, old blankets, pieces of polarfleece....


anything washable.
Reply:If you don't have the proper garden fleece then use a large sheet and some stakes, plant the stakes higher than the flowers and drape the sheet over them, don't allow the sheet to touch them and it will keep any minor frost off them. Hope this helps :)
Reply:you can lay towels or blankets over them.





if you don't want to lay the blankets directly on them put some stakes in the ground to hold the blankets right above the plants.
Reply:All you can do is put a blanket over them. I know that sounds weird, but it is the best thing to do. Good-luck!
Reply:My grandma always just threw a comforter over her flowers...
Reply:A light weight sheet works very well.
Reply:i put old sheets over them. put rocks around to hold down

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