Texas Gardening: First Frost/freeze, 1 by debnes_dfw_tx

debnes_dfw_tx wrote:
This is what happens every year to this area in front where I keep herbs. The Rosemary is several years old, and Parsley never dies overwinter in this spot where all the leaves weave into the tender annual limbs.. Even on the North side, the herbs always come back! You can't see all of them in this pic, because the leaves covered them so well. Air is still allowed to flow through, it takes a lot of wet and time to make the leaves mushy. By then it's Spring again.

This little nitch in the Pink Hawthorn Shrubs is about 5' wide & 3' front-back. The leaves are 5-6"deep, guess you'd say a volunteer mulch job, I do nothing until Spring:-)