Rhododendron Winter Care Preventing Cold Injury In Rhododendron Shrubs

1. How do you protect rhododendrons from frost?
2. Do I need to protect rhododendron from frost?
3. How do you save a sick rhododendron?
4. Should you cut back rhododendrons?

How do you protect rhododendrons from frost?

Rhododendron or azalea especially valuable to you can be protected with a mesh enclosure filled with oak leaves, or with a teepee-like structure constructed using three or four evergreen branches with the points forced into the ground and other ends tied together, or by snow fencing alone or with a polyethylene plastic ...

Do I need to protect rhododendron from frost?

Preventing Rhododendron Cold Damage

Because rhododendrons root much more shallowly than other plants, it's extra important to keep a thick layer of mulch over this delicate system. Four inches of an organic mulch, like wood chips or pine needles, is often adequate protection from the cold.

How do you save a sick rhododendron?

1. Prune away any dying tissue. ...
2. Spray the leaves and stem of your rhododendron plant with insecticides. ...
3. Move your rhododendron if you think it may be getting direct afternoon sunlight. ...
4. Change your rhododendron's soil if you believe it retains too much water.

Should you cut back rhododendrons?

Rhododendrons don't require much pruning other than the removal of dead wood and deadheading of spent flowers if practical. Only species rhododendrons come true from seed. Named cultivars must be propagated from semi-ripe cuttings, grafting or layering.