The cold weather has done nothing for me personally , it is only the garden that has been affected !
Both my Crinodendrons (patagua & hookerianum) have suffered ; the latter looks as if it's about to abort all of next years buds (!)....shame really but hopefully some will survive .
On the positive side , my 40+ year old Dicksonia antarctica has (yet again) weathered through victoriously , (fully acclimatised to anything E.England can conjure up) ; has never been fleece wrapped nor protected in any other way ; the only shelter it receives is partial overhang from a 50+ year old Pinus nigra ; my 5' tall Pachycereus pringlei in an unheated greenhouse has also survived ; adapted to severe but brief frosts in habitat , it looms like a medieval mace in the prolonged twilight of this season . Hopefully that will be the end of any weather extremes for this winter ; currently (20.31pm) @ 7 degrees + and raining . I'd almost forgotten the colour of my car ; has been iced-up for nearly two-weeks .
My pansies are still booming I don’t think anything kills them! Except really dry weather .Can’t tell if anything else is damaged or not just now .It’s been too cold to go out ,now it’s too wet ! Hey ho .
Not in the UK but we also had a cold snap after being unseasonably warm all the way through November we have had about 2 weeks at -3 to -5 and 2 days at -10. I can't tell what's died yet, I'm hoping my purple sprouting broccoli makes it. It's a trial to see if it can make it through the winters at this house, it failed at the last but that was very wet soil so I am hopeful it can here.
2 years ago we made it all the way down to -18 and a small bay tree and a fig both survived the former took small amounts of damage, and the fig took none.
I adored the cold snap (not so much the ice on some of our house windows though) and hope all the roses (think there are about 60 or 70) came through OK. The camellias are looking a bit droopy...
I won't know until spring what has happened either. Here in norwich it's been consistently colder than we've had it for a while but without the insulating snow that we had in the really cold weather before. As the ice has laid mostly on the surface I think more damage will have been done and plants that might have made it through with a few inches of snow, will have really suffered. I opened the greenhouse door yesterday and we had icicles in there.
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I opened the greenhouse door yesterday and we had icicles in there.
Ours went down to -6.5°C but it's now 11.9°C (with no sun), in the space of 2 days
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
I ♥ my garden.