I have lost a bleeding heart. It is supposed to be its second year but no sign at all. No one here mentioned bleeding heart. I wonder if it is just me?
Too soon to say here as I always wait till the end of May before giving up on things but, worryingly, no signs of new buds on the Amistad and Pineapple salvias in the sunny bed though plenty on the gauras in the same bed and just starting on the fuchsias in pots.
In my Belgian garden some clematis played dead for 2 years before coming back to life but I did lose a huge montana and a couple of macropetalas one spring when they were in full bud and about to flower but then we had a surprise - 15C frost. In late April.
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)."
Nothing too bad here but we're exposed and cold every winter so if it's survived so far then it tends to either be very tough or we have plans in place to protect it.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
A beautiful delphinium - Excalibur. I should have kept some of its copious seeds, but hindsight is a wonderful thing. Thought my salvia Amstad had gone, but a close inspection has revealed a tiny leaf.
I have lost a Clematis Montana and 2 new buddleja I planted out last year, clematis is dead as a dodo and the buddleja are showing no signs of budding.
It has been a brutal Winter in most of Scotland. Monty has ticked me off as there has been hardly any mention on GW of how bad it has been in other parts of the country. The Beechgrove Garden show nailed it last week by rightly saying gardens in much of Scotland are up to a month behind where they would expect to be in late April. We are in West Edinburgh and that is certainly the case here. My daffs have only just come out to play. We've lost Salvia Hotlips; two Fuscias; a Lemon Tree in the greenhouse; a Lavatera; and potted Dahlias. Those who remember me posting about a Cotoneaster tree which I thought had bit the dust last year might be cheered to hear that I moved its position and it is sprouting new growth a speedy rate. Losing plants is part of the challenge to me and what it is also does is focus the mind on changing things around and freshening up (all due respect to the faithful departed).
Raging that I lost my lupins that I sowed in the autumn. And I had them happed up so well against the Beast. I think the v. bonariensis have gone and other stuff but will wait awhile to see what pops up.
lavender. It's always touch and go on my acidic clay soil, so no great surprise the cold wind and so much - so much - rain this winter tipped most of them over the edge. I think one 'Grosso' is still alive and one Hidcote, but most of the others are just dead sticks.
Surprisingly the prostrate rosemary made it through and is flowering prolifically now in relief at its own survival.
The euphorbias are generally alive but Not Happy. I've had to cut the wulfenii flowers off to give the plant a chance of survival - it's barely hanging on by the tips of its roots where the wind has tried to drag it out of the ground, poor thing. The amygdaloides 'Purpurea' ones have suffered the least damage. Polychroma is barely a stump but there are a few shoots so I think - hope - it'll survive.
Time will tell on the evergreen agapanthus. The deciduous ones all look fine.
On the upside, I planted a pretty blue anemone blanda about 5 years ago and it disappeared, so I assumed it was dead. But there are half a dozen of them out there now - not where I planted the first one but round and about. It must have self seeded and the cold has triggered them into life
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
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No one here mentioned bleeding heart. I wonder if it is just me?
In my Belgian garden some clematis played dead for 2 years before coming back to life but I did lose a huge montana and a couple of macropetalas one spring when they were in full bud and about to flower but then we had a surprise - 15C frost. In late April.
I think the v. bonariensis have gone and other stuff but will wait awhile to see what pops up.
Surprisingly the prostrate rosemary made it through and is flowering prolifically now in relief at its own survival.
The euphorbias are generally alive but Not Happy. I've had to cut the wulfenii flowers off to give the plant a chance of survival - it's barely hanging on by the tips of its roots where the wind has tried to drag it out of the ground, poor thing. The amygdaloides 'Purpurea' ones have suffered the least damage. Polychroma is barely a stump but there are a few shoots so I think - hope - it'll survive.
Time will tell on the evergreen agapanthus. The deciduous ones all look fine.
On the upside, I planted a pretty blue anemone blanda about 5 years ago and it disappeared, so I assumed it was dead. But there are half a dozen of them out there now - not where I planted the first one but round and about. It must have self seeded and the cold has triggered them into life
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”