My evergreens didn't go dormant however......The problem I am finding with my plants this year is that they all decided to sink themselves. Well, not all but a majority of them did. I have been keeping an eye out on the pots (since these are the sell plants and a lot are sold) and they started growing again when we warmed up and seemed to be doing ok. I noticed that some of them started turning yellow on the outer leaves and the middle seemed to stop growing; I figured it was due to the days we'd get into the low 30s after having high 70 weather. After they seemed to be getting worse I got to looking closer and found that they have sunk themselves halfway down into the soil. I have never had this happen and always plant them the same way so it had nothing to do with how I planted them; we plant them with the soil just barely covering the roots because we know they can settle into the soil. Anyway, I assume these plants did not like the sleet/snow freeze (it actually got down to around 8° with the wind chill) we had and they tried to hide from it; the sleet/snow didn't melt for 3 days
I got a late start working on them today because my granddaughter has a bug that's going around but tomorrow will be a full day of digging them out. When I was doing it today I was digging the soil from around the plants and was scooping out half of the soil. These are in 2 gallon pots and the plants were pretty much all the way at the top (with a little room to be able to pick the up around the rim) when planted in the fall. They pulled themselves halfway down into the pots and that is not good; it's a good way for them to rot
I would have much rather had them all go dormant!!!!
