Help with spring flowers?

Ok tonight we are supposed to get a big snowfall of 5-8inches of snow(Indiana weather, 60 degrees one day, snow the next) and my mom's spring flowers are getting ready to bloom, what can we do to the flowers to keep them safe during this snow blizzard?

Help with spring flowers?
Depending on how cold it is supposed to get, you may not have to do anything. If it is going to get in the 20's, try to cover the plants with a sheet or plastic bucket. The best thing to use is burlap. Remember to support the fabric with sticks or a frame, or else the weight of the snow will crush the plants. You will also need to remove the cover in the morning before the sunlight cooks the plants. Remember, Mother Nature designs plants to survive in nature. You just need to keep the buds from freezing overnight.
Reply:You can cover them with plastic tents, or five gallon buckets. All the plants are messed up on when to bloom because it was a warm winter.





Or you can let them be, they'll probably be fine without any help at all.
Reply:Cover them with a tarp is the only thing that I can think of.





Good Luck.
Reply:well you could either dig them up carefully, rootball and all, and place them in tubs/pots in the garage or under cover somewhere until the snow has passed.


Or you could rig up a cloche (a sort of tent) over them using a framework of metal or wood with some clear plastic sheeting or bubble-wrap over it... The main thing is too keep frost and snow off of the buds.


At the very least you could cover them with hortucultural fleece (which is a thin white material like a cross between tough tissue paper and a cotton sheet).


This is what we use at the garden centre i work in, to cover delicate plants that are outside, which cannot be brought inside during particularly cold/nasty weather.
Reply:Have you thought about maybe building a make shift tent over them. Using sticks in the ground that go higher than the plants and then cover them with something so that the snow does not come into contact with the plants
Reply:I don't know but why did you ask two times?
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