OK, Garten im ersten Jahr. Das zweite Foto zeigt es in seiner ganzen Pracht. Ich hatte vor, die Pflanzen ein wenig zurückzuschneiden (Zone 6b), außer Sonnenhut für Wintervögel zu behalten.
Und siehe da, wir bekamen ein neues Dach und sie warfen eine Plane darüber und warfen dann alle alten Schindeln darauf. Größtenteils zerkleinert – einer der Sommerflieder ist völlig zerdrückt, ebenso wie Schmetterlingsflieder, Neuengland-Aster und andere.
Ich kann es nicht rückgängig machen, aber sollte ich an dieser Stelle einfach alles zurückschneiden (sobald der Schnee weg ist), auch die kleinen Teile, die noch übrig sind? Oder einfach sein lassen und sehen, was im Frühling passiert? Ich bin ein neuer Gärtner und freue mich daher über jede Anleitung zu dieser neuen Wendung!
Von: transuranic807
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What i would do is start crying clear up the debris and wait till winter passes to restart
The natives will probably bounce back from the roots next year. I had mine trampled and cut down before and they were fine. Clear debris and reseed if you have any new seeds that need to cold stratify. Some have probably already self seeded.
They tarped it and trampled it. Not a whole lot different than a large snow bank sitting on it all winter. Rake the debris, trim broken things away gently, and mulch with a light layer of leaves from your lawn. Leave it until spring. It will be fine. You may need to spend a bit more time trimming up the damage in the spring. Add some compost as mulch in the spring. You will be a star gardener.
I would wait and see. Remember that most native plants could be trampled by a herd of bison and survive. You may lose the lilac (and it certainly won’t flower next spring) but at this point it would be best to just wait to trim things back in the spring.
Your fine, plants are fine, good timing on having the roof done..
They’re fine. Winter is coming, they grow back next year and usually look beat up around this time of year. They saved you some yard work.
Yeah sometimes these things happen on these bigger jobs like this. It’s just the way it goes sometimes.
We had new retaining walls put in a couple years ago and the equipment ruined the whole side of the yard, and took out 2 flower gardens on its way. We tried to rebuild and fix it all but the problem was we have free range chickens. So any flower or grass seed we chucked down, the girls just feasted on. This next spring and summer we are going to work hard on restoring it all.
Make some outstanding hot chocolate and plan for spring.
Why are roofers like this? When they did my roof it’s like they deliberately killed plants, when there were so many non-plant areas to use.
We had our house resided a couple years ago and had the same thing happen. I didn’t do a single thing, left all the crushed broken bits there, and it came back better than ever the next year. Native plants won’t be bothered, they’re literally made for this!
Most everything I can see in your before photos are tough as nails perennials and I see you already got snow.
If it was me, I wouldn’t do a darn thing, enjoy my new roof, and expect everything to come up fine in spring.
Just trim what you want for tidyness sake, but the plants will be fine without it.
Rake it, wait until spring to see what comes up.
Let it be and see what happens in Spring. It’s possible it lived because the roots are underground and it will take off when the weather’s appropriate. Leave the dead and crushed leaves to mulch it. There should be dropped seeds too. I leave all the dead plants to act as their own mulch over the winter and then remove the dead in Spring. Plants can be way more resilient than you think. Babying them kills them more often than attacking them.
Just want to say that you have a lovely garden! I think it’s going to be fine. Don’t stress!
God I hate roofers