January and February are some of the toughest months of the year for Central Texas gardeners, as anyone who cleared the corpses of beloved plants following the devastating freeze of 2021 can attest .
While temps dipped into the upper 20s within the city limits during our most recent cold snap, we might be staring down a harder freeze with temperatures in the mid-20s for longer durations next week.
The simplest way to freeze-proof your Texas garden is to plant native species, said Melissa Hagen, houseplant manager at Tillery Street Plant Company in East Austin, when we talked to her in 2022. You don’t have to protect natives from a freeze, “and they reliably come back year after year. You just let them go dormant,” she said…