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Winter - just about survivors

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
edited May 2023 in Plants
Following this winter, I have a few plants that have produced a few tiny leaves off the odd twig. The other bits of the plants are obviously dead. Is it best to leave them in peace or do something else?
Potentilla, hardyish fuchsia, hardyish shrubby salvia come to mind
In London. Keen but lazy.

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  • GrannybeeGrannybee Posts: 332
    Bushy salvias seemed dead to me and then I got on my knees and inspected them closely. I found small leaves sprouting at the base - only just in time as I was going to rip them out.  Wait a bit longer!
  • WiltshireWildWiltshireWild Posts: 64
    Grannybee said:
    Bushy salvias seemed dead to me and then I got on my knees and inspected them closely. I found small leaves sprouting at the base - only just in time as I was going to rip them out.  Wait a bit longer!
    Yes, same story with my salvia clotted cream. Just started to show signs of growth. I think many plants are very late this year. 
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @B3 I think I would wait for the Potentilla and fuchsia too. Both are always slow as they flower later in the year.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • borgadrborgadr Posts: 718
    I have a couple of hardy fuschia standards in pots that I thought were dead. But they've started sprouting leaves, just in the last couple of weeks, and only low down on the plant. I'm going to wait another week or two, then cut away everything above the new growth and just wait and see. They won't be standards anymore though.

    Lesson learnt. Next winter they're going in the greenhouse.
  • Butterfly66Butterfly66 Posts: 970
    My potentilla looked completely lost a week ago but has suddenly started to leaf up, a bit patchy but more alive than not
     If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero
    East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited May 2023
    I had decided not to grow evergreen agapanthus again.  Even in a cold greenhouse they were killed.  Whilst clearing out the pots, I came across some live-looking roots with a bud each, more like rhubarb.  I have potted these and await the result.  Just for interest.  I will stick to my decision.

    My deciduous agapanthuses in pots outdoors were also killed.   I divide them about every third year.   I have given awaay the excess for years and had no.one to give this years's excess to, so chopped them up and put on the compost.  About October/November, so top of the heap.  I have just found survivors  pushing through.  So one variety at least may be saved.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    My hardy fuchsias and salvias have been slow but shooting now.  I’ve cut the down so hopefully they’ll be ok.  May have lost a Neon but survived cuttings so not bad.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • msqingxiaomsqingxiao Posts: 482
    In my front garden (southwest-facing, full sun): Salvias have started lots of new growth from a month ago. Penstemons all died. Cineraria survived and doing well (said to be tender annual??)

    In my back garden (northeast-facing, mostly shady still): Fuchsias have some new growth at the bottom. Potentilla has started flowering from a week ago though not much leaves that I can see. Salvias all died. Penstemons all died. 
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