01/21/2026
🚨 Urgent Weather Update – Please Read 🚨
This upcoming weather event is very different from 2021. Forecasts are calling for 25–35 mph wind gusts, single-digit temperatures, and wind chills between -15° and -20°.
We’ve received over many calls in the last 24 hours regarding plant protection. At this point, covering plants may actually cause more harm than good.
Here’s why:
• Tarps and covers combined with 1–3 inches of ice and 5–8 inches of snow can collapse plants under the weight, often killing them.
• Tarps secured with bricks or other weights in 35 mph winds can become airborne, creating a serious safety risk to windows, vehicles, and neighboring homes.
• Snow is a natural insulator and often provides better protection for root systems than tarps.
• Even plants inside commercial greenhouses failed during the 2021 freeze—there are limits to what protection can do.
Our professional recommendation:
Save your time and money. Spending hundreds or thousands of dollars attempting to prevent damage—especially when those efforts may actually cause damage—is not the best use of resources.
Instead, we encourage you to:
• Focus on protecting your home and family
• Cover exterior faucets
• Prepare essentials
• Ensure pool equipment is properly drained and freeze protection is working
Unfortunately, plant loss will not be fully known until late spring or even mid-summer. We’ve seen many cases where landscapes appeared dead, were removed too early, and later neighboring properties fully recovered with patience and time.
This is Mother Nature—sometimes damage is unavoidable. We’ll be here in the spring to help assess, recover, and re-establish landscapes where needed.
Stay safe and warm.
