i agree with you Woodgreen wonderboy, I'm in the SE too and the late frost got quite a lot of plants, All the young rose shoots were singed, two of the pontitilla are looking very sad too.The shoots of the tree peony,bleeding heart, euphorbia etc.have been affected too. So please be patient a little longer as the nights are still cold. It is heart breaking when you see robust, healthy plants are affected.
Back in the 1980's I nearly lost a Pieris to a late frost in April!! Imagine that, a Pieris is a mountain plant and as hardy as anything. The frost killed off 80% of it and I only saved it by cutting back hard and nurturing it back to growth. I still have it. in a pot!
Couple of yearsago I finished sorting an area of garden that needed a grass pth. It was late October. I sowed the grass, it germinated, the snow came, stayed for weeks, when it melted there was my grass, just waiting to get on with growing.
im taking a chance here in torquay been gardening does anyone else lose hand tools i put them down and am sure they just disappere must have gone through a dozen trowerls or more
A pair of my secateurs spent a year in the compost heap. OH renovated those and they lasted a couple of years before I picked them up with some sticks and put them through the shredder.
Today I couldn't find my gloves at end of play. Serves me right for getting green ones. Haven't done today's shredding yet.
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i agree with you Woodgreen wonderboy, I'm in the SE too and the late frost got quite a lot of plants, All the young rose shoots were singed, two of the pontitilla are looking very sad too.The shoots of the tree peony,bleeding heart, euphorbia etc.have been affected too. So please be patient a little longer as the nights are still cold. It is heart breaking when you see robust, healthy plants are affected.
Back in the 1980's I nearly lost a Pieris to a late frost in April!! Imagine that, a Pieris is a mountain plant and as hardy as anything. The frost killed off 80% of it and I only saved it by cutting back hard and nurturing it back to growth. I still have it. in a pot!
Yesterday everyone was defending MD for saying, wait, today you should go for it
what am I like.
I will just get me coat
Couple of yearsago I finished sorting an area of garden that needed a grass pth. It was late October. I sowed the grass, it germinated, the snow came, stayed for weeks, when it melted there was my grass, just waiting to get on with growing.
In the sticks near Peterborough
im taking a chance here in torquay been gardening does anyone else lose hand tools i put them down and am sure they just disappere must have gone through a dozen trowerls or more
Chica -tie something bright to the handles or give them a lick of bright paint to make them easier to spot. I'm the same-always losing secateurs!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
thanks fairygirl great idea now why dident i think of that
A pair of my secateurs spent a year in the compost heap. OH renovated those and they lasted a couple of years before I picked them up with some sticks and put them through the shredder.
Today I couldn't find my gloves at end of play. Serves me right for getting green ones. Haven't done today's shredding yet.
In the sticks near Peterborough