I'm really sorry. I loved my beautiful blue hebe but this winter did for it... there was no green, anywhere, scratching and clipping right down to the base, so I have dug it up and am now dithering about what to put there instead.
Same here, lost all but one...more than 12 hebes died in one go this winter due to the wet & cold in various parts of the garden. The one that survived was in the most sheltered dry part. I dug a huge one up and the stems had rotted in the middle. Gutted
Same here, lost all but one...more than 12 hebes died in one go this winter due to the wet & cold in various parts of the garden. The one that survived was in the most sheltered dry part. I dug a huge one up and the stems had rotted in the middle. Gutted
I'm most gutted because, having planted the whole garden three years ago it was all starting to look really good. Guess that's gardening for you!
I've got one more plant that's looking sad that I'm really hoping will survive, a fatsia Japonica. I only planted it a year ago and it was doing really well. It's got new buds so 🤞
Fatsias are pretty tough @richjamesturner, which is always a bit surprising when they look like they're rather exotic plants. Mine always look rough after winter anyway, but you can cut off all the dead material and it'll produce new growth very easily. I did mine recently - and there really wasn't a lot of it left, but it's been fine and the new growth is coming away. It managed the recent spell of very cold freeze/thaw/wet no problem. It wasn't quite as severe or prolonged as the December spell, but still down to around minus 9 a couple of times, and plenty of sub minus 5 and icy days/nights. Mine is in a fairly sheltered part of the garden which also helps. An exposed specimen will get damaged more easily.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Fatsias are pretty tough @richjamesturner, which is always a bit surprising when they look like they're rather exotic plants. Mine always look rough after winter anyway, but you can cut off all the dead material and it'll produce new growth very easily. I did mine recently - and there really wasn't a lot of it left, but it's been fine and the new growth is coming away. It managed the recent spell of very cold freeze/thaw/wet no problem. It wasn't quite as severe or prolonged as the December spell, but still down to around minus 9 a couple of times, and plenty of sub minus 5 and icy days/nights. Mine is in a fairly sheltered part of the garden which also helps. An exposed specimen will get damaged more easily.
Yeah, I'm not too worried. The stems are solid and as I said there's new growth coming so hopefully all good.
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I've got one more plant that's looking sad that I'm really hoping will survive, a fatsia Japonica. I only planted it a year ago and it was doing really well. It's got new buds so 🤞
Mine always look rough after winter anyway, but you can cut off all the dead material and it'll produce new growth very easily. I did mine recently - and there really wasn't a lot of it left, but it's been fine and the new growth is coming away. It managed the recent spell of very cold freeze/thaw/wet no problem. It wasn't quite as severe or prolonged as the December spell, but still down to around minus 9 a couple of times, and plenty of sub minus 5 and icy days/nights.
Mine is in a fairly sheltered part of the garden which also helps. An exposed specimen will get damaged more easily.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...