Garden experts are urging gardeners to complete this one check before deciding their plants are dead and need to be removed this spring. And it will take just a couple of minutes of your time.

It’s almost inevitable that not all of your garden plants will survive winter. While there are ways to protect your plants from winter damage , UK winters are famously unpredictable and cold. So, if some of your outdoor plants are looking a little worse for wear this spring, it can be easy to assume they haven’t survived the cold months.

But before you go and dig up that dead-looking plant, take a couple of minutes to complete the bark test. This easy…

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