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- Local honor award is hardy
- Local varieties are absolutely hardy
- Prepare honorary prize for the winter
- Do not protect winter hardy varieties from frost
- Winter protection for special price in a pot or bucket
- Tips
Local honor award is hardy
Local honor award is hardy
Ehrenpreis is a very diverse plant, which degenerates in countless varieties worldwide. In our latitudes there are about 50 different species. For the garden perennials are offered, which are completely hardy depending on the variety. However, there are also Veronica species that are not hardy and must be protected from frost.
Local varieties are absolutely hardy
Native species of the honorary prize are either one-year or perennial and tolerate minus temperatures easily. The eaten honorary prize, which is often pulled in the garden, is one of the indigenous species that are hardy and can be grown in the garden without winter protection.
Annual species retreat in the fall. They sow themselves. The seeds germinate in spring and produce new plants.
Prepare honorary prize for the winter
In the fall, you can cut back native Ehrenpreis perennials completely. If you want, you can apply a mulch cover, but that's not really necessary.
Do not protect winter hardy varieties from frost
If you draw honor-prize varieties that are not native to our latitudes, you have to assume that they are not hardy.
It is better to plant such varieties in tubs or pots so that you can overwinter them in a frost-free place.
If the plants are in a very sheltered location, where it is not too cold even in winter, protect the honorary prize with a mulch cover from frost. Cover the plants additionally with fir branches. Fir branches have the advantage that they throw off the needles only in spring and the honorary price is slowly getting used to more light.
Winter protection for special price in a pot or bucket
If you draw honor in the pot or bucket on the terrace or balcony, you should also protect winter-hardy species from frost. The earth freezes too quickly in the planter.
Place the jars on an insulating surface and place them in a sheltered place. Sensitive varieties should also be covered with foil.
Make sure that the honorary prize is not too wet in winter.
Tips
Shrub Veronica, also called Hebe, is often offered as absolutely hardy. You should not rely on that. Most of these New Zealand strains tolerate frost to minus five degrees, and only for a few days.