We have self sown cyrinthe, still OK on an exposed corner of front garden yet another patch in the back has suffered. I though too early to tell about much else.
Most of the self seeded Echium P are gone now after last week's cold. One or two are hanging on which is great as it better informs me where the not-immediately-obvious sheltered spots of the garden are.
The pelargonium and non Hardy fuscia are in the greenhouse and looking a little ropey but alive, I think.
As others have said its hard to tell anything else at this point.
It's not the cold that bothers me too much but the damp. I expect to lose a lot of Mediterranean species to damp come the spring.
We've had an unusually cold winter, and I expect I've lost a lot of tender perennials that most treat as annuals but are usually OK in the ground here - pelargoniums, begonias, hypoestes, caladium, strobilanthes. I was surprised that the osteospermum is still green after -8C temps! I thought it was marginal even in a mild winter. I never lift dahlias, and I won't know how they've fared for a couple more months. I forgot to bring in my pots of foxtail fern and they've gone brown but should recover.
We have self sown cyrinthe, still OK on an exposed corner of front garden yet another patch in the back has suffered. I though too early to tell about much else.
I was also surprised my self-sown cerinthe seem to have survived. We had a couple of nights down to -6, so I suppose not as cold as most.
@Fire - my Californian poppies have all disappeared too - but not due to the cold. There are only a couple of places where I can grow them because my soil is a bit too heavy. I'd always understood they prefer a freer draining soil, and I think last summer and autumn were so wet that they couldn't survive even in the favoured spots.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
I swear my poppies were fine in Nov. I guess the -8 with heavy rain might have knocked them out Mine are planting in the community plot, on sandy soil, so drainage shouldn't have been a problem. I was very much looking forward to a wildy poppy year coming. The wet summer meant that so much had germinated. Maybe the root systems are still in place. I think a lot of aquilegia has gone too.
I had a check yesterday on the plot and loads of the aquilegia have indeed disappeared. I thought they were tough and hardy. Also a lot of allium sphaerocephalon have yellowed on the leaf tips. The fgmns leaves are looking dreadful - blackened and mouldy.
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The pelargonium and non Hardy fuscia are in the greenhouse and looking a little ropey but alive, I think.
As others have said its hard to tell anything else at this point.
It's not the cold that bothers me too much but the damp. I expect to lose a lot of Mediterranean species to damp come the spring.