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| My holly (as I've noted in other posts) put out a lot of new growth late in the season after dying back from transplant shock. Most of it is from the base of the plant. I'd like to protect it for winter to try to save the new growth from dying. Besides mulching and putting burlap around the shrub, what else should I do? Will an anti-desiccant spray help? Should I cover the new growth with dead leaves or will that hurt them? Also, at what point this fall should I add the protection--just when nighttime temps are starting to reach freezing?
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Wed, Sep 16, 09 at 10:50
| whats your zone? why do you think it needs protecting.. are you zone pushing??? i used to have best luck.. applying protections after full dormancy ... but if you have to pound in stakes.. before ground freeze [only made that mistake once.. lol] ... and then the collection grew so large.. i started to wonder why i had all these plants that needed all this protection in late fall [read that: heavy manual labor] .. and then stopped doing it.. and now i am happier .. good luck with your holly ken ps: whether or not you protect it.. first winter transplants MIGHT have a hard time .... so do the best you can.. and then write it off to the fates ... whatever happens.. happens.. you did your best ... and dont kill it with too much love ... |
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| Sorry, Zone 6 near Boston. I thought it needed protecting because in a previous post, where I expressed my happiness that my transplanted holly was coming back from the brink of death, someone pointed out the the new growth was probably coming too late in the season to harden off before winter. It started putting out growth at the end of July/beginning of August. Thanks! |
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| I'm also in zone 6 and my hollies seem to be completely hardy. The Burford's (?) I planted late last fall did not make it though. I was warned that they were not as cold hardy as the Blue Girl and Dragon Lady I also grow. I used to try to protect all kinds of things. Protection can lead to disease and rodent problems. I would just go natural and rely on the survival of the fittest. |
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