Using fleece to protect young hebes

As I have posted elsewhere (http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/...1734-helping-frost-damaged-hebe-blue-gem.html) I lost a few Hebes last winter.

I have now (optimistically) planted some more (6 Blue Gem and 2 speciosa)- which are mostly about 9 inches high. I have also bought a roll (8m x 1.5m) of Frost Protection Garden Fleece, manufactured by Kingfisher Gardening.

I now need to know how to use this fleece to protect my young Hebes from the cold winds of winter.

How should I go about this?

 

hello,

you can wrap each one individually and tie up with hort string round the bottom (not too tight) or if the hebes are in a big group then you can lay the fleece over them and pin down at the edges, though with this you will have to watch that the wind doesn't catch it.

Not really ideal to leave things tied / covered up all winter if it can be avoided. down here we would just protect when a particularly bad spell was coming. but i see you are in the highlands, so you will have to take the call on that.........

emily

 

Thank you for that. I've got a line of them covered with fleece and pinned down at the edges. With 46 mph winds forecast to arrive in a few hours time, it will be interesting to see how the fleece survives.

 

Good luck