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Losses after the bad winter

Mary370Mary370 Posts: 2,003
I have lost my bottlebrush and cannas
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  • Daisy33Daisy33 Posts: 1,031
    Cannas, bananas, erythroniums, rose and fuchsia cuttings and a gut feeling that foxgloves are not looking so good.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I've lost fewer plants than I expected, but living in London has to have some benefits! I lost that poisonous pink shrub -oleander, I think. It had never flowered in three years and I don't think I would have liked it even if it had.
    Will you replace your tender plants? They are worth the risk, I suppose, if you can afford to replace them :)
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I've lost a lovely Graham Stuart Thomas rose and lots of little babies in 9cm pots which I really should have got planted last year. 
    A salutary lesson.
    Devon.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Lost several different Salvias, despite being in greenhouse and a few Agastache, luckily I grow these from seed each year.
    Also no sign of my Delphiniums, which is a surprise.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    It's not turning our as badly as I feared - and here's a warning. If I had not been so busy I should have dug up some of the 'dead' plants that are now showing signs of life. It has been such a late Spring so give your plants time to wake up.
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    I think I may have lost two Clematis montana, both in pots, both should have been planted last year.  I lost some biennial seedlings which made it through the Winter only to be killed by snow/frost/wind in February. A teeny tiny Hydrangea cutting given to me by a friend's dad had the cheek to show two wee buds and they were also murdered in February...
    Everything is so far behind that I'm not giving up on my clemmies making a recovery but we'll see.

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Clematis are b#####s for playing dead.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Janie BJanie B Posts: 963
    Haha... you're so right, @B3 , I cut one right down a couple of weeks ago assuming the worst, and moving the tower to another plant. Need to buy a new obelisk for it now...!
    Lincolnshire
  • RoddersUKRoddersUK Posts: 537
    Lavender
    and potentially:-
    Echinacea 'Moodz awake'
    Coreopsis 'grandilflora Early sunrise & sunfire'
    Pennisetum 'fireworks'
    Time will tell
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384
    A ceanothus (like many others) and probably most of the dahlias left in the ground.  Can't see any life in my dwarf fuchsia (Tom Thumb) yet but that's always late to show.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
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