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The Beast Leaves

Paul B3Paul B3 Posts: 3,154
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Hello again everyone ; good to be back on here !
Did anyone lose any particularly cherished plants last week ? My 8' Crinodendron looks the worse for wear ; all flowers aborted and leaves look dessicated .
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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    My tree peony got excited a bit too early and was covered in lovely fresh bronze foliage unfurling.   All gone crispy and now soggy.  I shall have to keep an eye on it and cross my fingers.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Mark56Mark56 Posts: 1,653
    A few of the early daff varieties have flopped and fallen in to oblivion but quite lucky overall. Lots of fleece and old sheets were at hand. 
  • Paul B3Paul B3 Posts: 3,154
    Thinking back to last Thursday it seems now like a bad dream ; our front garden faces eastwards , the wind was unreal . People passing on sledges must have played 'Guess the Car' as the drifting snow had reached the bonnet !
    The reliable Narcissus 'Tete a Tete' has shrugged off the -12C windchill and has proven itself impervious to anything Siberia can throw at it ; numerous clumps have survived and started flowering the other day .
    Strangely enough , the more tender Crino.patagua appears to have got through ; havn't flowered this yet but would have thought @ 7' high should be showing signs ?
    Obelixx & Mark56 ; hope all your plants are OK , more springlike next week .


  • madpenguinmadpenguin Posts: 2,543
    I am actually surprised at how much survived!
    Spring was postponed for a few days and now seems to be in full swing again.
    Time will tell if there is are any serious losses I suppose.
    “Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I had a couple of trays of young zantedeschia aethiopica. I'm not sure if any have survived. Time will tell.
    Devon.
  • Daisy33Daisy33 Posts: 1,031
    My mature zantedeschia aethiopica are looking poorly. I have a banana in the garden which has survived the last few winters. She had sent out a pup which doesn't look well. We will see.

    Strangely, other plants look rejuvenated...sedums and mints for instance. Despite having a sheltered courtyard in almost central London, I have very few spring plants. Some prims and 1 daff so far!

    Wrapped my small wormery up during the East Beast, hope they have survived. There is something rather horrid about trapping an animal then leaving them to the elements.  :(

    /sorry if I am using inappropriate emoticons, I can't see the difference between them.
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    I had a coprosma that came from Morrison's, thought it was fairly hardy and tucked it up against the house wall. Frost got the top growth so l moved it into the unheated greenhouse for the duration. It doesn't look any worse, but I'm not sure if it will survive. The shrubby salvias look a bit tatty, but l won't be pruning them for several weeks yet. Could have been worse ! :)
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Funnily enough, salvia Hot Lips in a pot has come thru looking better than the ones in the ground like Amistad and Pineapple sage.   Hot Lips had loads of new foliage showing and it got frosted so I've pruned it back to good leaves.  T'other pair are playing shtum for now.   Fingers crossed they're OK cos I really like them whilst I'm not at all bothered about HL.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384
    A Solanum crispum 'Glasnevin' which has been evergreen for me for 10 years, looks rather the worse for wear.  I can't really tell about much else yet as growth isn't due to start on most of the things I'm concerned about.  Lots of privet hedges have gone unusually bare in the area.  We hardly had any snow so lost the protection that gives and several days and nights where is was between -4 and -7C hasn't helped (although I'm hoping fewer pests less-loved creatures will have made it through the winter.) ;)

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Dream on.  They just burrow down.   Regular -15C and worse in my Belgian garden and just as many slugs and aphids every year.  Feeding the birds all year sorted out the aphids, with the help of ladybirds and hover flies but nothing could eat that many slugs!
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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