{"id":727,"date":"2017-01-05T10:14:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T09:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/advisor\/gardening-tips\/?p=727"},"modified":"2023-04-28T11:06:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T11:06:45","slug":"bay-tree-winter-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/bay-tree-winter-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Tree Winter Damage."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4962 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/bay-plant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/bay-plant.jpg 650w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/bay-plant-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/bay-plant-520x694.jpg 520w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/bay-plant-320x427.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bay trees although fully hardy are often damaged by winter winds and frosts which burn the leaves.This can be avoided by placing a horticultural fleece over the bay plants on the coldest days and nights. If your plants have been damaged they should recover in the spring\/summer and to aid the recover you should feed them with a high nitrogen plant food such as <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/miracle-gro-plant-food\/\">Miracle-Gro<\/a> and remove any very badly damaged leaves.<\/p>\n<p>Feed with a the high nitrogen plant food once every two weeks until the end of June and then switch to a high potash feed such as liquid tomato feed once every three weeks until the end of September.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then next winter if it looks although its going to be very cold then use a horticultural fleece to protect the plant after Christmas when we encounter the hardest frost and winter winds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Get the most most from GardenAdvice.co.uk <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/admin\/services\/\">Click Here<\/a> for our services page&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bay trees although fully hardy are often damaged by winter winds and frosts which burn the leaves.This can be avoided by placing a horticultural fleece over the bay plants on the coldest days and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-head-gardener"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}