What are your coreposis and Japanese anemones doing?

[Mykittensmittens]

Because mine look very….non existent!

No sign of life at all in the anemone. There seems to be a root which is secure in the ground, but above ground not a single thing.

Coreposis looks like dead twigs with nothing green or alive going on.

I cut the coreposis back as the frosts started but not to ground level. Again when I give a little pill it seems well rooted.

Are both beyond redemption or is it to early to expect signs of life from them?

My anemone is just a small bunch of leaves at the moment. Plenty of time for them to get going though, I was scraping ice off my windscreen around 10 days ago!

I have 5 J anemones and only one is a very small leaf or two. The rest haven't so much as popped their heads up yet.

IME they don't come up until we've spent at least 4 weeks debating if their dead or not

Ah okay, thanks. I’ve had coreopsis beaten by frost before, either when I’ve not cut back before winter, or cut back brutally. My local nursery said to cut back to 4inches in November and that should be okay. We are in Staffordshire and it’s not brutal winter here, but still the coreopsis just look like 4 inches of dead sticks. When I tug, they seem well rooted.

The JA are literally a nothing. A little plastic plant label gravestone, with no signs of growth at all. I only planted that last august and never had one before, so no idea what to expect.

I’ll give both a stay of execution before evicting and replacing with something else….

My anemones are all in leaf but they’ve been in a few years and I don’t cut them right down in the autumn, I just take off the tatty leaves. If you cut them down they’ll take a few weeks yet to start to show.