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- What kind of care does privet need in winter?
- Maintain privet in winter properly
- Protect earth from drying out in winter
- Privet is not evergreen
- Tips
Privet is good hardy
What kind of care does privet need in winter?
Privet is a very robust shrub. Most species tolerate frost easily and need little or no additional winter protection in winter. However, if the privet hedge is still very young, you should protect it in the winter from too much cold but above all from the sun.
Maintain privet in winter properly
Privet needs little care in winter. He can withstand minus temperatures up to ten degrees and lower without problems. You can even cut it on frost-free days.
Young privet shrubs should be watered regularly, even in winter. They have not formed sufficient root system, with which they can provide themselves from deeper layers of earth themselves. In older plants, additional watering is only necessary if it has been very dry for a very long time in winter.
Winter protection can make sense when the hedge stands directly in the blazing winter sun. In this case, you should provide for a slight shading. Suitable are special mats from the garden shop or pine branches, which you put next to the shrubs in the ground.
Protect earth from drying out in winter
If Privet does not survive the winter, it is not frozen, but withered. It evaporates water over the leaves, but can not replace moisture in frozen soil.
That's why you should water young privet hedges in winter on frost-free days.
A mulch layer under the shrubs prevents the soil moisture from evaporating.
Privet is not evergreen
Although it is repeatedly claimed: Privet is not evergreen. He drops his leaves during the winter. Depending on temperatures and light incidence, they can even stay on the shrub until the new outbreak.
If the privet loses its leaves in winter, this is a normal process.
In strong cold, the leaves are discolored. That too is no cause for concern. Many gardeners plant privet because of this seasonal leaf discoloration.
Tips
Maintain privet in the tub, making sure that the pot is big enough. Do not expose it to direct midday sun in winter. The leaves then evaporate too much water and there is a risk that the privet dries up.