Gardening

Those plants are all hardy and many are native to the area, and they should make it just fine. If you want to baby them, feel free. I find that putting mulches leaves on my flower gardens looks nice----and I suppose that it is beneficial too. But for me, it is just a way to dispose of all the leaves that I have from five humungous oak trees.

Good luck, whichever way you go. And if you get tired of all the work to protect the plants, don't feel guilty. And if one of them does not survive, it is too sensitive to keep anyways. At least that is how I look at it....survival of the fittest.

Then again, you probably do not want to see the mess that is my flower garden. Not the prettiest in the world, but the bees and butterflies love it. Some times of the year, I can't get near it to water the container plants located in those beds.