Help Your Trees with the Snow

by Eileen MacKay

There is a lot of snow out there today!  Longtime gardener Eileen MacKay sent in a note for all the gardeners out there wondering what to do.

I would suggest to all the gardeners that they go out and shake their bushes before the weight of snow gets too heavy for the branches. I have lost a branch off a Japanese snowbell tree and had a camellia almost destroyed by heavy snow tearing branches. I suggest they take a broom and just shake the branches. More snow seems to be on the way.

Also don’t worry if the leaves of rhododendrons are all curled in on themselves. It is a way of cutting down water loss in cold weather. Soon as it thaws out they will be fine as will the spring bulbs.

Thanks Eileen!