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[Ain't Nobody Here]

My beautiful Japanese Maple tree has died . It was well established when we moved in 20 years ago, it reaches the first floor window and was a real feature of our front garden. It now has no buds at all and the bark is coming off the main trunk. A gardener chap I spoke to said he has 3 customers who've lost large acers this year .

[Charlottechicken]

I was going to start a thread about plants that have succumbed to the bad weather, how spooky!

 

Round here it appears to be cordylines, I've seen some well established ones succumb, but I lost mine a few years ago. I thought I had lost my grape vines, I haven't, thank goodness I have lost a standard bay tree which I only bought last year, and my eucalyptus has finally died too. My acer is fine though.

[bluekarin]

I was watching Gardeners world last Friday, and they said about the cordylines all dying. We had a small one in a pot which died at the end of last year, and I have seen huge ones around here, one almost as tall as someones house all dead. Its due to the very cold winters damaging their immune systems and they've succumbed to an infection. Mine didn't, I think it just rotted out at the top as it had no new shoots. However, I sawed off the dead top and discovered about 4 inches away from the original stem and lovely new one So it lives on. Will cover it in fleece from now on though.

 

That is sad about your acer. They are beautiful trees. Actually, my eucylyptus died this year. It flowered, but then they all went crispy, but I think thats partly to do with the confined space I had it in *whispers I was also slightly hoping it wouldn't survive as I had a lovely new cherry to go in its place*

[Ain't Nobody Here]

My acer went all crispy last year - that must have been the start of its decline .

 

I've lost a Verbena Bonariensis and 3 grasses (Pennisetum, Miscanthus & Panicum Virgatum) look pretty dead. I've also moved a Hibiscus which it turns out I'd put in too shady a spot .

 

I'm hoping the grasses will pull through but I only planted them late last year so they weren't established. Any advice about them? I've cut them right down.

 

(I'll rename this thread .)

[stripeybunny]

I too have lost a bay tree (3 years old) plus a small sage and a rosemary

[jackie45]

I have lost camellia ( in unheated greenhouse) only a few weeks ago. My OH thinks it happened because the buds were starting to open and sap rising. Lost bay tree in pot and two rosemaries , one in the ground and one in a pot. Most of my polyanthus, planted in pots for spring colour have rotted off with the heavy snow in December.Who would be a gardener!

Jackie

[Olly]

Lots of sad-looking cordylines round here, though not in my garden. I lost all my geraniums which were in the ingested greenhouse, they'd normally survive in there. The biggest casualty for me is pots - several terracotta ones have cracked around the rim. It was exceptionally cold though - I've never had frozen eggs before.

[Minnie&Moose]

We've also lost a bay tree, cat mint, and some hebes

[Cinnamon]

I lost 2 standard Bays as well,plus a Lemon tree (hardly surprising) & a couple of other random bits in pots on the patio.

Lost loads of patio pots this year too - they cracked in the cold

[ali-s]

I lost 2 standard Roses in pots and 1 Blueberry in a pot. also lost a Budleia (sp?), and probably 90% of the Spring flowering bulbs. Those that have survived daffodils and Tulips are a lot smaller than they should be. I only found 1 Crocus and a small patch of Snowdrops this Spring

 

Whoever lived in the Cottage before us must have spent hours and hours planting the bulbs and they made such a show in Springtime.

[poachedegg]

We've lost a eucalyptus which we only planted in the autumn, so not had chance to establish and looks like we are losing 2 large standard bay trees in pots (will be really gutted, expensive to replace as so established), 2 smaller ones bought last year look agonna too.

 

Lesson learnt - if we replace, cover them over in the winter.

[Daphne]

I've lost a mature hardy fuchia and I can' see any of my aconitums, but I've mostly noticed that stuff I planted last summer/autumn has keeled over, like globe artichokes and some border perennials. Obviously the coldest Dec ever has had quite an effect on plants old and new. I've got quite a few gaps now, although this is not helped by me pulling up something I thought was an immature bramble which I then realised yesterday was in fact a patch of Japanese anenomes! I suppose the good thing is not to think about the wasted money but to think about the planting opportunities instead. I must admit when I've started to look for new plants, I'm tending towards the biggest ones. I know smaller ones are supposed to 'get away' quicker, but I'm a bit nervous about going through this again.

[Jools]

I moved my herb fennel in the autumn and it didn't make it. Otherwise, everything else looks fine - but that's because we're used to it and only grow what can cope with the conditions. Actually, I have lost two Blueberry shrubs too but that's because my bantams cockerels destroyed them! I left them in situ in the hope of recovery, but nope, they're goners. Funnily enough, our hardy fuschias cope well enough but I don't cut them back until round about now when the leaf buds are just coming through. They're also in the ground rather than in pots which helps.

 

My mum has lost quite a few plants in Norfolk - cordylines and palms mainly. My sister has lost her hebe hedge in MIlton Keynes too.

[Cinnamon]

We also lost half of a very large & very old Rosemary bush.One half is dead - the other half is in flower.

I think the weight of the snow split the trunk.

 

I have lost a nice flowering Currant too. Its just not there any more .... totally disappeared

[..lay a little egg for me]

We have lost: one, and possibly also the second, eucalyptus tree. Well established trees that are about 40 foot high and tucked between the summer house and the garden fence and surrounded by spiky pyracantha so that will be a challenge to get them down! A small bay tree, but think the one right next to the front door may have survived. A pittosporum that was a really big bush, and the cordylline of course, a hebe. We thought we had lost all the ceanothus bushes, but this week we spotted some shoots starting low down on the trunk so we just have to remove all the dead wood and hopefully they will be OK.

[Eggasperated]

I lost my Cordyline as well, it was about 8 years old and had flowered for the first time last summer so I wonder if it knew what was coming?

Also died: Rosemary, Caryopteris, Hebe, Choisya, Perennial Wallflowers and Pittosporum. My yellow Knipofia haven't yet appeared and my yellow Lupin looks very sickly.

On the plus side I found £50 of garden vouchers in my handbag that I had forgotten about so, I am looking forward to filling some of my empty spaces .

[Bramble]

I've lost a ceanothus, a hebe and a choisya. These were all plants that were put in (not very well) by the builders when they finished my house before I moved in three years ago, so not desparately sad about those.

But I've also lost a bamboo which was growing in a pot and a fig tree which again was in a pot, much more sad about those as they were plants I'd bought. I'm not completely convinced the fig is dead, will give it a little longer, just to make sure.

I wonder if it was just the cold that finished them off or the weight of snow they were buried under for so long, or both?

Also lost a tray of aubretia plug plants, but that was nothing to do with the cold, I left them where the chucks could (and did) find them

[Cinnamon]

I'm not completely convinced the fig is dead, will give it a little longer, just to make sure.

 

Yes,do.

I had a Fig that I though I had lost last year - it was just a bare stick in a pat.

But I carried on watering it all summer,much to my Husbands amusement,& it suddenly sprouted .....he thought I had swapped it for a different one

Mine did look totally dead,but if you have some faith yours may just surprise you.

[beach chick]

verbena bonariensis - cant remember who mentioned it - is a hardy perennial, so if you cut off the dead top it should sprout again - and is also v. good at self-seeding.

 

like others, I've lost about 3 hebes and possibly some hardy fuchsias, keep wondering whether to prune hard and see what happens but dont think hebes are very pruning-tolerant?

 

my acer which I thought the tree surgeons had killed - accidental falling branch - is now making a comeback...

 

I think with a lot of trees/shrubs its worth hanging on for a little while just to see what happens.

[Ain't Nobody Here]

It was me that mentioned the Verbena . Trouble is, it hadn't been planted long enough to flower so it won't have self-seeded. I'm hanging on in the hope that it sprouts soon .

 

I've been advised that my Pennisetum Setaceum isn't at all hardy so is probably dead .

[beach chick]

ANH, you should be able to get a few quite cheaply - lovely for plonking in various places round the garden because they do self seed, and they also add height to borders. in a month or so will be perfect for planting in the borders. my MIL grows them from seed, but as you can prob get 5 plants for £5 or less, I tend not to bother!

I also have 5 in a pot on the patio which have done years of service - probably reached their end now though, as has the pot itself.... frost damage too bad!

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Thanks, I'll do just that .

[abwsco]

Just cordylines here from what I can tell.

[Lavenders_Blue]

I lost a hebe, a choisya a bleeding hearts and a bay tree. It doesn't sound like a lot, but we've not done much with our garden yet, so we actually lost over half our garden plants! Curse you, cold weather!!!

[Mrs Potts]

I've lost a ceanothus, three lavenders, two verbena bs, all the penstemons and four hebes. All were at least four years old, so quite well established and as they were grown from my cuttings, or those from friends, very sad to see them all go. The ceanothus was about eight feet tall, and trained into a standard tree shape, so big presence in the garden. Not so many conversations when I am walking round the garden now - do hope I am not the only person who talks to their plants ...

 

Am trying to look on the bright side and space everything else out (it was a bit crowded, not as good at removing plants as I am at putting them in). We're going to put a crab apple tree where the ceanothus was.

 

Odd thing was, some plants only died when it seemed to start getting warmer - particularly the lavenders. Even raised osteospermum from seed in the greenhouse and they made it through until the end of February before giving up.