The freeze unfortunately ended my Tropical Plant garden in Houston but now it’s time to start fresh and new with Native Plants!
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I'm in S.A. and I buy my plants based on if they survive the freezes. If anything dies in a freeze, I don't buy that anymore. Keep replacing with new stuff till you have everything that can survive a freeze w/o needing to cover/baby them.
Oh, man. I'm so sorry.
In San Antonio my papaya got hit hard, but it is already coming back
WAIT! Don’t rip anything out for a good long while. Many of them will re-emerge. Just let everything rest and recover.
Global warming!🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
That’s too bad, but not all is lost.😉
Plant what thrives g
I'm in league city. Wondering if we will get another freeze? This weather is crazy.
Lol taps playing in the background… cover those plants up in winter!!
Sounds like you did prepare for it. Sorry this happened. Dang.
Definitely invest in actual plant blankets. You can save them to reuse and they hold up really well. They saved several of my plants here, south of San Antonio.
Hi Paul. I feel your pain. You worked real hard to loose so many plants. My advice is to take this as lesson learn & move forward. Continue to plant what works… also take this opportunity to start over which will be fun. Looking forward to see what you’ll plant next! Peace ✌🏼
Sorry bro, can't wait to see it cone back
Same we lost ALLL KINDS OF PLANTS!
Same lost a lot of cacti and succulents in this Houston cold front 😤
You ever think of getting an outdoor greenhouse?
Give them tike, most of what you have can and should recover in time, also you should do a video on the giant windmill palm in the corner it's so cool looking!
In NW Houston and a lot of mine died too. My ti plant looks sad too. Hostas died, but my agapanthus hung in there, just some parts gone. Going to wait to see what returns before cutting back.
Hi Paul, its good to have you back….these challenges are sent to test us…deep breaths, brush yourself down and look forward to new beginnings…take care and never give up x
All those perrenials, it’s normal to get knocked back like that in winter. I’m in north Texas and that’s what mine always end up looking like but flush back out in spring.
Honestly most of your plants look fine and I’m betting they’ll all grow in beautifully again in the spring. I don’t think it’s as bad as you think 🤷🏻♀️I’ve been growing plants FOREVER, I’m 35, I am from Texas, just moved out of state recently 😢…even the most “dead” looking plants WILL GROW BACK. I love plants! Love your videos too! Hope the fam is doing great! Happy new year!! 😆
I feel your pain! 😢 I’m in Oklahoma we got that crazy ice storm 2 years ago and then we suddenly dropped to 3 degrees with 50mph winds this year. I planted a lot of evergreens to my area and flowering shrub this fall. They all went toast and I’m heart broken. I will let them sit for a while even though it will be hard not to pull them out and start again this spring because it’s a hot mess lol. I guess we have to start thinking differently with our plants.
Avocado Toast
Literally 😂
The good thing is that there will be lots of more videos now! I look forward to seeing how your garden will look in a year!
I’m so sorry about all your plants and trees. Wait a little bit because plants are stronger than we give them credit for.
Plantu can hit me in the deep south
Happy New Year, Paul. Looking forward to your videos this year!
Poor plants! Hope some lost causes come back. Ya, restart and attract birds. Birds are awesome. 😎👌
I'm down in Rockport and all my tropicals die back but come back up every year. The Hawaii Ti plants will grow back from the ground and will surprise you on the growth rate. You should mix in more evergreen shrubs for additional structure around your leafy perennials and tropicals.
I'm about a 2 hour drive west-ish from Houston and this video helps me out a lot. Watching your videos inspired me to start planning a native garden soon! But I have been worrying about these cold snaps we've been getting
Hey Paul, what hedge is behind your Ti plant @ 2:00, is it japanese yew? Looks like it held up to the freeze well, so i'm looking for something that will hold up better than having my oleanders die back to the ground everytime we get a freeze.
I think a lot of your plants will be fine! They should recover quickly this spring, especially the ones that survived 2021, they probably have a much sturdier root network now to get all those nutrients faster and bounce back.
Wild times for gardeners
You did a great job protecting your plants as best you could with the resources you had
Don’t count them out just yet. Just text us Cuz. I’ll give you what I know.
Since I'm in northern Ohio, I thought I should comment on this. You might want to consider growing plants (especially ones you want long-term) that are cold hardy to at least one zone below the one they are residing in (local zone 9 -> zone 8 plants), such as southern magnolia, loquat, sabal minor, crepe myrtle, live oak, longleaf pine, etc. Plants with zone 9 or 10 hardiness and tropicals could be restricted to those that easily regrow from the roots and/or are easy to replace. It's great to see from the video that the native evergreen oaks and pines seem to be doing well.
To reference another comment, Japanese yew grows extremely well in northern Ohio, as it is cold hardy to -30 degrees, but I didn't know it was heat tolerant enough to survive in Houston.
Looking forward to your weekly videos! Best of luck with your garden recovery ❤🌱
Global warming my behind. Another dims. 😂
The worst thing you could do is chop those plants before cold because then the cold air will have a way to get down into the roots. Those gingers & elephant ears will be fine, I live in Buffalo New York and I’ve put those guys out in 17° weather in pots and they came back, slowly, but not at all a problem. (Creating) Microclimates are a huge part of tropical gardening. Plant a thick (when mature) hedge of evergreens to buffer the wind from the direction that the harsh weather comes from. For me it’s West.
You could easily grow just about any variety of banana that you want as well. Their foliage can get smoked but as long as the stem stays alive, which none of the temps you will get will kill a banana stem.
Pickerelweed is hardy into the Adirondacks, so no problem. Again, my goal is to have a cold hardy jungle as well with as many broadleaf evergreens as possible. But I’m 3 zones colder. Even if you consider yourself a zone 8a, that is still such an advantage to take the tropical look and even get some produce from it.
Great video. I'm learning what to plant in Florida as compared to northern Indiana. It's quite a difference!
Just cut back the dead and new growth will come for most of them!! Cutting the dead will help the plant put all its energy to push new growth. Shell ginger will most definitely come back. Happens to me every time it’s gets really cold. Good luck!
it wouldn't work for your larger trees and shrubs, but this may work for your perennials and short stuff. Up here in ND it's not uncommon to go as low as -30 to -40. What I've found works well is common unprocessed leftover straw (not hay). The hollow stems are great natural heat holders especially if the ground is unfrozen like where you are. the long strands tend to not blow away and if they do just wet them and they tend to stick together. If you throw the fabric you are using as an extra layer you really trap the heat. I've actually gotten lettuce right through February up hear. When the straw eventually breaks down you've got free compost. Remember earth is your planet "and" protector here.
Just give it during summer and they will come back
Yo plantu it's time to go to lowes get some 6mm plastic make a heated greenhouse. And invest in frost cloth it's better then blankets lol
global warming killed your plants by freeze? hmmmmmm….definitely sounds like a lefty liberal thing to say. Makes no sense whatsoever.
Also, if you just look up your growing zone you can find some seriously awesome and tropical looking plants that will survive in your area. Climate has continued to change since the earth came into existence. (somehow there was an ice age, highly doubt humans were to blame) Growing zones have always changed. Look up your growing zone.
I live in Houston also so I'm glad to find your channel. I've found it's best to wait on trimming the plants back till spring but some just won't survive. My red tip photinia has a fungus so if it dies I'm ok with digging it up. I can't wait to watch more videos tfs 😊
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Sorry about that. Glad I live in the tropics, its the floods/droughts for us