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cold snap - what croaked, what survived?

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  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    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. 
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  • McRazzMcRazz Posts: 440
    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. 


  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    It was a bad thread title. It should have read - "cold snap -  any surprises?" 

    I am surprised that my bedding cyclamen sailed through -8C
  • SYinUSASYinUSA Posts: 243
    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.
  • borgadrborgadr Posts: 718
    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.
  • Cerinthe and Welsh poppies self-sow so you will probably have a few plants in Spring, despite what the winter weather does. 
  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    edited 2 February
    @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
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited 2 February
    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.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    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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