The Morgue

Kay_Peel

My tree fern.

I wouldn't mind but I treated it like a beloved, cranky old relative - putting stuff in the trunk to keep out the wet and wrapping it with a coat to keep out the cold. At the height of the snow, I would trudge out to make sure it was alright and that it wasn't weighed down with ice and snow. I'd adjust the wrapping and ask it 'anything else I can get you? A cup of tea perhaps? Piece of cake?'

And it still turned up it's toes!

Kimitatsu

I lost my cordylines which are well and truly dead but the bleeding heart is doing amazingly well, the shrubs that I cut back really hard in the autumn I was worried about and the forsythia was very late to bloom and leaf up, but the buddlea you would think was a plant that loved the snow!! The Bleeding heart is looking amazing at the moment.

A lot of them were late to flower, but the snowdrops were amazing this year, and the pansies have come back with a vengence. My garden was a jungle when I first moved in so it is being pruned back hard and I think here with the exception of a couple of items that it has benefitted from the cold.

heynonnynonny

Did those of you who lost cordylines cut them down to the ground? I cut mine in the back garden to about 6 inches high and hoping I did the right thing, well they were mushy throughout. The green cordy in front garden has come away ok with no frost protection or anything!

Kimitatsu

Thanks Heynonynony - will try that :T:T

heynonnynonny

Kimitatsu wrote: »

Thanks Heynonynony - will try that :T:T

I did it on the advice of these lovely MSE'ers...well must be worth trying to see if anything happens before replacing them, as I did rather like them. Will teach me right for not knowing a thing about gardening till this year...trust me the next ones I have will be wrapped within an inch iof their lives when it gets cold!!

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I lost 2 red Cordylines (yes, I did cut them to the ground and am waiting to see if they bounce back), lavander and rosemary

Grebe

I'm in Nth Lanarkshire, I have lost my cordyline, lavender, rosemary, and by the looks of it my lovely variegated holly and my pampas grass is showing no signs of life at all.
Barely clinging to life is my box plant, fuschia's and ceoanthus.

nodwah

:(It's so sad everyone, all our losses...

I've lost 2 cordylines - one was 5 feet high and in a pot next to my little patio set which made me feel very tropical sitting there! I could kick myself for not putting it somewhere more sheltered:mad:

The other one was one I rescued from the dump and now it's gone to join the choir invisible too:(

I have 2 large cistus shrubs which have very big browny dead bits in the middle and look awful now.

I lost 2 agapanthus in pots, tho the one in the ground survived strangely enough. I wonder now if I was a wee bit too hasty in chucking them :slaps head.

Also my bottlebrush plant has had it which is a shame as it flowered beatifully last year.


On the plus side my meconopsis (himalayan blue poppy) looks better than it did last year and has at least one flower bud forming:j

Newbird

In the East Shropshire we also lost 2 red Cordylines...but I should have moved them into the unheated greenhouse, just didn't get round to it as they were in big heavy containers...I was warned when I bought them that they are not as hardy as the green ones...will have to replace them, mad at myself for this!

Also lost a lovely Clematis flammula but the larger C.armandii which i thought may have been more of a problem has survived and given its best display ever, in full bloom now. I can only think that it was better protected by its surrounding plant neighbours than the flammula which was on a fence.

Our Gunnera manicata was slower than usual to come back, but is now sporting several new leaves which seem to be shooting up by several inches a day..I do cover it with an old rug and its own leaves during the winter.

RHYSDAD

Well i was HOPING that the cold would do my ornamental rhubarb in but, alas, it's sprouting mightily......
Even agricultural roundup has been shaken off by this triffid in the back border.....