Do you think plants have a brain? I think they do, as my garden looks like a normal February. They are holding back. I think they know more than the weathermen.
I hope when they do decide to spring into life that they don't get cut down by a late frost in May. That would just be cruel.
I'm in SW France so my plants usually come up a bit earlier than in the UK, but this year everything is late. I looked at photos from 2016 early March and the garden was more advanced than this year end of March. But Solomon's Seal is an inch or two tall, sedums are showing, don't have grasses, and don't grow cannas any more as they always die in winter. Used to put them in the GH or the garage, but no good. Clematis are sprouting, hadn't finished pruning them, so are roses, ditto.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Dug up where a sedum was and completely rotted. So I assume the other 3 are. I do see some Echinacea pooking up finally! Looks closer to a shrub than I intended.
I think there are going to be a lot of plant casualties this year, especially anything in pots. I have lost my dwarf banana and I have my fingers crossed my ginger lilies have survived in the garden as I always leave their tops on to collapse over the rhizomes for protection. There is a lot of die back on shrubs but I am sitting on my hands for another month before starting to cut back damaged tops of any kind.
It just gives me an excuse, as if I needed one, to buy new replacements.
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I hope when they do decide to spring into life that they don't get cut down by a late frost in May. That would just be cruel.
I think there are going to be a lot of plant casualties this year, especially anything in pots. I have lost my dwarf banana and I have my fingers crossed my ginger lilies have survived in the garden as I always leave their tops on to collapse over the rhizomes for protection. There is a lot of die back on shrubs but I am sitting on my hands for another month before starting to cut back damaged tops of any kind.
It just gives me an excuse, as if I needed one, to buy new replacements.