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on September 17, 2025

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Plant experts explain how to protect your garden for the upcoming freeze “When we have severe freezes, quite often the tissue within a plant will burst and explode, kind of like a coke can in a freezer,” Scott Ricca, Co-Owner of Clegg’s Nursery, said. Ricca says certain plants are more susceptible to damage from the cold, like blueberries and blackberries. He says flowers that are just starting to show color are more likely to burn, but buds that are fully dormant and tight can handle the freeze a little better. For other tropical plants like petunias and hibiscus, you might want to consider covering them up with a freeze protection cloth. “When covering plants, you want to make sure that the surrounding or the cloth itself is secured to the ground because what you’re trying to do is capture the radiant heat coming back from the ground. So if the cloth doesn’t have good contact with the ground where it’s stable where the wind can blow underneath it, you’re catching or you’re losing ...

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