How Do Plants Survive the Cold?

How Do Plants Survive the Cold?

WAITE PARK, Minn. — This winter, temperatures have fluctuated from unseasonably warm to outright cold. Many will look out on the landscape and wonder how the trees and other plants make it through the cold. Cold injury or death of a plant from cold temperatures occurs when cells freeze. How do plants avoid this? Annuals: Annuals grow for one season where they die back before the winter. This plant will die, but any seeds it produced during the g…