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Can I use plant pots to protect plants from next weeks big freeze?

Ryan180680Ryan180680 Posts: 202
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I have quite a few plants that have started growing due to the recent warm weather, but with next weeks big freeze I'm worried it'll kill them off. Things like peony and dicentra. I was thinking of plonking some plant pots over the top to protect. Would that work? 

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  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    Mine are the same but will have to take their chances. They are used to our climate so I would not worry too much 
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Our climate is changing, so be prepared.  A large plant pot over small herbaceous plant new shoots should be OK.  But don't flatten the shoots and don't leave on too long so that the don't start to etiolate.  

    I use fleece.  I used to use newspaper weighted down with a few sticks.

     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Unless they're newly planted, tiny little things @Ryan180680 ,  and not established plants, they'll cope with whatever's coming.  :)
    My dicentras are all around 10 - 12 inches, which, although very early here because we've not had a cold winter, they won't need any protection. We've had plenty of frosts over the last week or two -including yesterday which was a round minus 3 or 4. 
    Peonies are only just appearing, but the old stems protect  them anyway. 
    If the plants are in the right site, and haven't been mollycoddled they'll barely notice. You can do more harm than good with too much cosseting   :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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