Hi, i've just 'green bined' my Cordyline Torbay Dazzlers (3). They were all wrapped up but removing the fleeces and covers today revealed 3 badly mushed plants. I suppose they are only H3 hardiness and the minus 10 we've had has killed them. We'll try again next year.
It's really too soon to tell for most plants. Many will have frosted shoots and stems but will regrow from lower down - unless the rest of winter throws up more deep cold spells and/or there is untimely frost just as the new buds open in spring.
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)."
I've got to drive 8 miles to the garage now with the window down. It seized in the down position during the heavy frost the other day. Bloody electric windows! The job won't get done til tomorrow but I'm making use of the dry weather today and getting them to garage it overnight
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
On the plus side, there are lunaria seedlings (all of the types that I had last year, as far as I can tell) springing up all over, mostly at the first true leaves stage, so I should get a good show next spring. Forget-me-nots too. And the crocuses, snowdrops and daffodils are showing their noses above ground.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
I think it is always a good idea to wait and see in the spring. Plants often make an amazing recovery. They surprise us, we think they are dead and then suddenly there is life.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
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I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful