Warm, Dry Weather Means Water Plants
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Collapse ▲The next weeks will see us experiencing temperatures in the high eighties and very little rain. It has been a long time since we have had warm, dry weather in western North Carolina. Let’s don’t get caught off guard and let our gardens get too dry.
This newly planted Leyland cypress is suffering from drought. Plants need at least the equivalent of one of rain per week to survive hot dry weather.
The past three years have been wet and cool. In some cases we have gotten more than one hundred inches of rain in a year. There has been no need for us to water newly planted landscape plants. Sometimes it was too wet to plant!!!
With warm dry weather predicted, newly planted trees and shrubs are susceptible to drought stress. What is a ‘newly planted’ tree or shrub? Any plant installed within the last twelve months should be irrigated. The same goes for newly planted turfgrass. Vegetable gardens, flower plantings and groundcover plants should be kept irrigated.
So, how much water to use? A plant generally needs the equivalent of one inch of rain per week to thrive. This equates to a thorough soaking once per week.
Even long established landscape plants can suffer from drought. IN larger shade trees leaves dry up and fall off. You can see sky through the canopy of this oak.