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Salt Injury
Salting highways, roads, and streets is done to make driving simpler during the winter months. The downside to road salting is the slat spry that can cause damage to broadleaf and evergreen trees and shrubs.
Salt injury symptoms appear often times much later in the year as abnormally early fall color, needle tip burn, browning of the leafs that progresses to the central main vein, and witches broom (tufts of twig growth) symptoms. In well established residential areas, use course sand for de-icing sidewalks instead of salt. Protect plants with barriers made from plastic or burlap prior to the ground freezing.
Later Blooming Magnolia Varieties May Avoid Frost Damage
Weather during most of winter 2006-2007 has been unseasonably mild, forcing many "Japanese" magnolias into flower as much as 6 weeks earlier than usual for north Florida.
Item Provided By: NFREC News