Can You Plant Flowers After the First Frost? What You Can Still Plant
Can you plant flowers after the first frost? Yes, but your choices become much more limited once cold weather arrives. Spring bulbs like tulips and daffodils actually prefer going into cold soil, and many perennials can still be divided or transplanted for a few weeks after that first light freeze. What you can’t do is […]
What Flowers Can Survive a Light Frost? 8 Tough Garden Favorites
There are quite a few garden flowers that shrug off a light frost (temperatures dropping to around 28-32°F) without missing a beat. Pansies, violas, snapdragons, calendula, dianthus, sweet alyssum, stock, and ornamental kale all tolerate light frost, and several of them actually get sweeter blooms and deeper color once the nights turn cool. I’ve pushed […]