I seem to have got off lightly here, just lost one Salvia Amistad and a Salvia African sky which I took cuttings from last year and nurtured them through the winter.
Not a loss but I have a Nelly Moser growing up the side of my shed. It was off to its best start ever- last week I counted 40+ buds on less than 5ft of good bushy growth. The wind two nights ago did huge damage to it. It even pulled away some of the ties.
@Poly-anthus, it is disheartening to loose our loved plants. I am sad to loose some, but that's life. Use this as an opportunity to try something new which you would like and didn't have space for in garden. If you don't want to have something that would take years to mature, try something else which would be great in couple of years. I lost a nice large Daphne, it is so expensive and takes so many years to reach that size, so I am planning to plant a winter honeysuckle shrub that even though not as beautiful as Daphne but will be easier to grow and would reach good size sooner.
The winter and the spring (so far) have definitely not been kind to our plants. Despite protection, I lost my five echinus that should have flowered this year. They were beautiful and lush until January, I am so gutted. The rest seems to be fine but definitely very far behind compared to last year.
I've had a couple of losses due to VW. A couple of Eryngium I assumed were lost to winter wet were possibly VW related too now I think of it. Time to order more nematodes...
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
@PeggyTX I hate to think of the damage to plants that the big freeze will have caused! I used to live in New Mexico and I can't imagine what it must have been like to have so much snow and cold in that region.
Here in Gateshead I've lost a few things that surprised me. I have a huge fuchsia that I was going to try to move but it seems dead anyway. Half of the climbing hydrangea is going crispy and brown. The viburnum I bought last year is dead and the hebes don't look very happy. Of course the cold has had no effect on the shrubs I don't like...
Thanks everyone. Glad I'm not alone! It's just that when something giving a bit of height and privacy bites the dust, it's hard to know what to replace it with. I'm afraid I won't live long enough for it to reach the required height, lol
I lost a very mature rosemary bush (2" diameter trunk) and I fear my 20' tall Eriobotrya japonica 'Loquat tree' also known as 'Japanese Plum' may not make it. Though the loquat tree did have 3-4 teeny, tiny shoots at the dirt line this week, they aren't growing much. All leaves are brown, droopingl crispy critters and there are no shoots on ANY branches other than the few at the base of the trunk. Texas experienced a once-in-a-lifetime arctic freeze in February that dropped temps to -16ºC for 3 nights and we experienced temps to -13ºC for over a week. Something I've not seen in my 72 year lifetime. Loquat trees are rated hardy down to 4ºC. I'm trying to be patient, as one person knows of a loquat that looks as bad as mine that "died" in Texas' last major freeze in 2015 that re-leafed a full 7 months after the damage was done. She sais she did her daily walking beside it and wished the owners would "put it out of its misery". But this tree is in my front garden, so you can imagine how distressing it is to have this dead-looking monstrosity in my front garden for that long. I find it amusing the potted 4' Japanese Maple right underneath this 20' Loquat was unscathed by the freeze.
I ended up losing this huge specimen. I gave it a year to recover, but all for naught. All new growth that emerged last spring after the horrible freeze started to go brown off and wilt. All signs of life were gone. All bark eventually peeled away as well. The tree was professionally removed this spring. The baby Acer 'Bloodgood' Japanese maple is happier to get a wee bit more morning sun. I has grown about a foot since the event. The adjacent 'Knockout' rose bushes have tripled in size. The nearby Vitex agnus-castus (Chaste tree), thought dead and cut to 1' has regrown to 5' from its roots and is currently blooming nicely. So all is not bad news coming out of that freeze. Texas landscapes are slowly recovering.
At a current temp of 38ºC (101ºF) and rising at 2pm, I would welcome some of that cold about now.
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Here in Gateshead I've lost a few things that surprised me. I have a huge fuchsia that I was going to try to move but it seems dead anyway. Half of the climbing hydrangea is going crispy and brown. The viburnum I bought last year is dead and the hebes don't look very happy. Of course the cold has had no effect on the shrubs I don't like...
At a current temp of 38ºC (101ºF) and rising at 2pm, I would welcome some of that cold about now.