Any gunnera owners?

[LittleWingSoul]

Hi all, is my gunnera dead? I have had it maybe 3 years now, it puts on a massive display in summer but I can't remember if it always looks like this at the end of winter or if the recent frost killed it this year?

I'd like to move it out of its pot and into the ground against a fence I was planning on adorning with rain chains to keep the soil around it boggy... But will be a lot of digging for nothing if its not coming back this year!

If anyone can offer any advice I'd be really grateful!

And there she is at the end of the bed in June last year, better days!

i don't know but you could try cutting back one or two of the bits above ground and see if anything green is lurking. If it is possible, try sheltering for a couple of weeks and see if that helps. I bought an unusual mint last year - inspired by my daughter's name - and thought it had perished. I brought it indoors and chatted to it and I have new shoots!

Thanks @percheron67 I like your thinking, a bit of nurturing, a bit of TLC... Either way I am going to have to tip her (more likely yank her) out of her pot either way so will get an idea then. Think she is probably pretty pot bound by now!

No idea, but my friend has one and she mistakenly called it a "gonorrhea". Watch it, it might spread.

Think that looks fairly normal for winter. My two look like that at the moment.

Thanks both! And lol @ misheard plant names!

In the end I was anything but tender with it... I had to saw it out of its ginormous plastic pot, then turn it upside down to remove from pot, oh my GOD it was heavy... Then I thought about dividing it so since I had the saw at hand I used that. So more of a massacre than anything else, but its in the ground now, with some shade-loving white aquilegia bulbs buried in the soil around them.

Time will tell!

She wasn't dead! I divided her before re-planting so have got one in a pot, too. I'm relieved! No sign of the aquilegia I planted but the hostas came back up, there was no sign of them at all when I dug the hole for the gunnera so I'm pretty pleased about that!

At the end of the summer I will wrap up the big flower things in the gunnera's wilting leaves, and just leave her be. Lesson learnt! (although she did need moving out of that pot.)

Gonorrhoea
I love gunnera. There's one in Churchill's garden Chartwell that comes from one he originally planted I think. I think one plant would take up my whole garden so I'll probably stick with rhubarb instead. Glad yours has survived.

Oh my garden is tiny @BlueberryPunch, it maybe doesn't get as big as the pond-sized ones I've seen at public gardens, although that might change now that I've popped it into the ground...!

This is ours it's over 6ft high and probably wider , comes up every year. OH dug a massive hole and part lined it with pond liner so it's constantly damp, as they like massive amounts of water.