Has anyone got Alstromerias?

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If you have, are they starting to come back yet?
I bought half a dozen ‘mexican sunrise’ last year, they weren’t cheap 🙄 They didn’t get very big and died off completely over winter. Do you think they’re gone?

Ditto with some Gallardia and Coreopsis.
My Geums looked dead but are coming back nicely, as is my penstemon, both in the same spot as the Alstros.

I have Alstroemeria but mine hasn’t had its first winter yet so I can’t help you on that score.
The last time I grew gaillardia it didn’t survive winter and coreopsis for me is always eaten down to the ground by slugs.

What was your lowest temps over winter and what is the soil like? RHS lists most alstroemerias as H4 hardiness (so should survive in most of the U.K, down to -5 to -10) but I believe they don’t like to be too wet, so could rot over winter if the soil is not well drained.

Heavy soil with clay below but plenty of grit dug in last year, not particularly cold, certainly not below -5. We also put a thick layer of bark mulch on the borders but perhaps it kept it too wet. I have one in a terracotta pot that was kept under my potting table and out of the weather but that looks just as dead as the rest ☹️
It also looks like I’ve lost a passion flower and clematis at the bottom of the same border so I don’t know what’s going on. The climbers in the front garden are thriving and that is much more exposed.

Lots have died due to extended periods of very cold and wet here but we are UP NORTH

If they are new they may well have rotted, where in the uk are you ?

North Staffordshire/Cheshire border.
My peacock orchids have definitely all rotted but they were in waterlogged tubs - I bought some huge tubs with built in reservoirs that seem like they haven’t drained at all over the winter, they were round the back of the garage so we didn’t notice.

Oh what a shame ! You’re not too far north but maybe the wet hasn’t helped, they’re a South African plant. Have you had a dig around where they were ?

Mine are through in both front and back garden and after a cold wet winter with plenty of snow and ice. N.E England

Mine are in a pot and they started coming through too early so I lost a couple of first shoots so popped them in the greenhouse and they are now looking pretty healthy with buds on, I think from reading the first winter is the most vulnerable.

On a second note, how the hell did you manage to kill Passion flower, they’re more robust than bloody bindweed.

Give the clematis time, they can be stubborn buggers.