From the ground up: Harsh winter damages trees

We found this great article on thegazette.com that looks at the effect winter will have on your trees and garden. Click here to read or begin below.


"From the ground up: Harsh winter damages trees"
By Lisa Slattery

Winter isn't giving up easily this year, but we know spring will come --eventually-- and with it may come signs of damaged trees and shrubs. Temperature drops to minus 20 degrees is cold enough to leave behind some fruit tree species that may have adverse effects from this winter's extreme cold are peach and sweet cherry trees. Iowa gardeners should expect poor cops on peaches and sweet cherries this summer. Peach trees are not reliable cold hardy in much of Iowa and temps below minus 18 will destroy flower buds on peach trees, while temps of minus 25 or below may destroy the peach trees themselves.

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