I can’t see the main Echinaceas but there are loads of little seedlings appearing. thought the Black n Blue Salvias we gone but scraping back the soil there are shoots. it really wasn’t a bad winter here, just the two or three weeks of icy winds and snow, ofwhich we only had a tiny smattering, (not enough to cover the ground,) last month. I wouldn’t give up in anything yet, they may have just been held back. We’ve been spoilt by mild winters over the past few years.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Too early yet up here for me to know what is missing. Possibly some phlox and helianthemums.........lupins for sure, penstemons, gunnera is showing no signs yet. I'll give the garden another few weeks yet before I do a 'roll of the dead'.
'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
Thought I had lost one clematis but it sprung into life last week and is going great guns now. Ditto one baby hydrangea that I planted out thinking, "winters here are so mild, it'll be ok". It looked dead as a dodo last week and the Defra horticulturalist advised me to pot it up and grow on a bit before planting out. I did and now some green is appearing
All of my lavender hidcote gonebut the French ones seem ok. Weird my clematis look awful but I will leave and see what happens bay lollipop trees look dreadful but not dead i have never been able to grow ceanothus, to high here Punk I will be surprised if you have lost your delphiniums, mine are popping thro now🤞
Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” A A Milne
I've lost a few plants - 2 delphiniums - 1 lupin other on the brink - 2 agastache black adder possibly - monarda's cambridge scarlet / cobdam beauty - wallflower bowles mauve died a while back - all the pelargoniums in the GH and maybe some other plants Some plants I expected to doing die haven't, they are doing very well
Yes I lost all pelargoniums except for one, and all the dahlias in pots. Everything was bubble wrapped and fleeced in the greenhouse, same as every year but too many frosts I guess. I thought the Euryops were dead but discovered tiny green shoots further down the stems, so just given some a tidy and will leave others in case we get another hard frost. The Halimium was looking peaky last year so that was a casualty I wasn't surprised to see. Sadly a new standard rose in a pot received for a February birthday died before April, despite being put in the greenhouse through the snows. Fingers crossed we won't get any more very hard frosts, as everything seems to be making up for lost time in this warm spell.
I thought I'd lost my fuschias, but they are now showing signs of life. I nearly put them in the bin week before last, but decided to prune them down quite low, and miracle of miracles, new leaf buds are showing. 😁
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thought the Black n Blue Salvias we gone but scraping back the soil there are shoots.
it really wasn’t a bad winter here, just the two or three weeks of icy winds and snow, ofwhich we only had a tiny smattering, (not enough to cover the ground,) last month.
I wouldn’t give up in anything yet, they may have just been held back.
We’ve been spoilt by mild winters over the past few years.
my clematis look awful but I will leave and see what happens
bay lollipop trees look dreadful but not dead
i have never been able to grow ceanothus, to high here
Punk I will be surprised if you have lost your delphiniums, mine are popping thro now🤞
A A Milne
Some plants I expected to doing die haven't, they are doing very well
I thought the Euryops were dead but discovered tiny green shoots further down the stems, so just given some a tidy and will leave others in case we get another hard frost. The Halimium was looking peaky last year so that was a casualty I wasn't surprised to see. Sadly a new standard rose in a pot received for a February birthday died before April, despite being put in the greenhouse through the snows.
Fingers crossed we won't get any more very hard frosts, as everything seems to be making up for lost time in this warm spell.
Lost one penstemon.