What plants will be lost in this extended icy spell?

[justasking111]

I'm dreading the carnage. We live in North Wales usually mild wet winters. But a couple of times we've had weather like this and lost garden bushes. I recall a fuschia hedge we lost in 1978 or 79 it was so beautiful I cried. We've lost the odd fuschia since then. Where we have moved to have magnolias, rhodedendrons, camellias, big mature plants. What's going to survive?

We've also got palms and olive trees

I was thinking the same today! Down south but it's been so cold ld -1:2 every day and night. Was going to bring my succulents in last night! Olive tree seems to be coping

A few years ago I lost a jasmine and a 11 year old wisteria I rescued from aldi to a severe frost I was gutted.

Fushias all died last winter here too

I'm worried about the wasabi, it has been frozen solid for over a week.

Next Monday is forecast to be 14 degrees.

The Good King Henry thought that the late summer drought was winter and so had resprouted in September, it is moody so may either sulk or not survive.

Olive and Pomegranate at risk.

OH the jasmine that was still flowering a couple of weeks ago. 🙈

We've lots of honeysuckle, passion flower, the Montana has spread all over next doors 10 ft fir hedge which they love. We nearly planted wisteria this summer over an arbour we'd moved to a shady corner. 😭

Drag anything in pots close to the house and hope for the best otherwise. In spring don’t be afraid to cut back as otherwise the plant might try to support too tall, damaged growth that will die.

Hardy Fuchsias usual resprout from the base even if they have been cut back to the ground.

I'm in North Yorkshire and am worried about figs, an olive, my passion flower and euphorbia mellifera. I've done what I can for them but as they're mostly in the ground, it's been a matter of wrapping them and hoping. Best of luck to everyone worrying through the cold!

Im 400ft above sea level in the N of W yorks, and it hadn’t occurred to me to worry about my figs or Euphorbia mellifera. The Euphorbia is such an abundant self seeder that it’ll be easy to replace.

Concerned about my echium and salvia amistad. Very unusual to be this cold by us.

6 tree ferns, some six foot high. They're wrapped but still.....
Gingers, Arundo Dona variegate, Euphorbias, sub-tropical stuff that's usually fine here like Impatiens tinctoria, Zantedeschia. Some of the Himalayan rhododendrons.
Minus 2 is usually our lowest temperature. Depressed....

I think I've lost my Echium Pininana, it's looking very sorry for itself. It would have flowered next summer too as it would have been on it's third summer :(

I've lost a fig in -5 weather before, and Euphorbia Mellifera is one we bring in at the nursery I work at, because it's tender. Mine isn't mature enough to self-seed. Maybe I need to beg seedlings from friends!

Wow! There’s advantages in gardening in ignorance. I bought my Euphorbia mellifera 25 years ago knowing nothing about it and planted it under the kitchen window, and within a few years was having to prune hard to keep it under 2m. So I was glad when a seedling popped up in a sheltered corner - that one is now 3.5m . I’ve since let another two grow, one in a rose hedge, on in shadow under trees - I don’t expect that one to flourish. The rest grow in pots and among paving slabs, so end up on the compost heap, although I did give a dozen to an unsuspecting friend last year. It seems to be about 4 years from seed to flowering.

the fig I’m not worrying about as I had a big one in my garden In Kent which was unscathed by a horrendous winter in the 70s/80s where the streets were covered in black ice for days on end.

the lady I bought this house from warned the bay tree would suffer in cold winters but grow back, but we haven’t had any trouble in 30 years.

This scares me. I'd be devastated to lose my tree ferns.

Surprisingly today is a balmy tropical 13°
🤣 and all the plants seemed to have bounced back and looking good.

The geraniums that were still flowering have definitely died! But that's to be expected

I lost a pot-grown bay a few years back to frost. My olive and loquats are looking okay this time, and one of my citruses, but the less sheltered citruses aren't entirely happy, but I think they'll pull through.

It's finally done for my nasturtiums and lobelia, but they shouldn't still be flowering in December anyway.

@MereDintofPandiculation -that made me smile because it's so true! The best gardens have things that 'shouldn't' be growing there. I'm always a bit sceptical about soil Ph for this reason: sometimes I'm sure it's really important but I've also seen lots of plants that apparently won't tolerate one or the other extreme looking perfectly fine.

Did you wrap them up? And what part of the country are you in?

Did you wrap them up? And what part of the country are you in?

SE.

We've never wrapped them up, we just put some loose straw in the centre and cover that area. I've never wrapped the trunks.

I was upset to see so many plants die in the summer this year, especially in public parks. I saw several dead or dying rhododendrons when we were traveling in Italy & France in August as well. Awful year for plants

Geraniums curled up their toes. It's been 15c here today so we've inspected. To add insult to injury we've also had wind gusts of 97 kmh so other plants smashed. .

Driving this morning the wind whipped up leaves into mini tornadoes it was very weird driving through them. Dancing leaves, so unusual

I lost a pot-grown bay a few years back to frost. I have a feeling that young bays are susceptible to frost, but once they’re up to 2-3m with a trunks much thicker than your forearm, the are much tougher

Our wildflowers are sensitive to pH, and our mosses. So I guess it’s a combination - some things really won’t grow in the wrong pH, some grow in the wild only in areas of high or low pH, but will cope with a wider range when cosseted in a garden, and finally most gardening books assume you are aiming for perfection (and have unlimited time at your disposal)