9 Perennials You MUST Dig Up Before the First Frost (Or You Lose Them for Good)

🔗 Get a beautiful perennial garden with less watering, fewer costly mistake from Henry’s Garden Blueprint: https://henrysgardensecrets.com/ Nine plants sold on the perennial bench are not perennials. They are tropical. Same bench, same label, and nobody tells you at the till. North of zone 7 they come back for one reason only: somebody lifted them out of the ground and put them somewhere dry. This is what to dig, when to dig it and how to keep it alive in a box until May. For eight of the nine, the first hard frost is the starting gun and you have about a week from that night. For one of them, waiting for frost is already too late. That one is rotting in warm soil right now, and it is at number 5. General storage for almost everything here: dark, dry, 40-50F, above freezing. A cool basement. Not a heated room, not an unheated garage in Minnesota. Caladium is the one exception and it wants about 60F, never a refrigerator. TELL ME YOUR FROST DATE Your state and the date your first hard frost actually landed last year. Not the almanac date, the night it really happened in your yard. The first frost line moves nearly two months across this country and the published maps are averages that are wrong for a lot of gardens. Between all of you there is a better map in the comments than in any book I own. I read every one. New video every couple of days. Subscribe and I will be here in April when you open that box, because that is the other half of this job and nobody makes a video about it. #fallgarden #fallgardening #perennialgarden