Hebes dead

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We look to have lost three hebes, I'm guessing due to the persistent cold weather given one had dead, frost damaged new growth. Two were low growing with red tinged leaves in the same bed which is fairly exposed, on clay and prone to waterlogging, but they'd been doing well for over 5 years. The other was a long leafed variety with maximum height 1 - 1.5m and was planted about 3 years old.

I've pruned all three in the hope this will kick start them to produce new growth, but it really looks as though only one of the red tinged ones has any signs of life. Could I have done anything to protect them?

I'm going to replace them with something else I think unless they do revive. Needs to be evergreen and hardy. Any ideas please?

I did plant a Teucrium Fruticans ( germander)last year, which did well and has started flowering again. It's got silver leaves and purple flowers and is drought tolerant. I may get another to replace my dead lavender.

Attractive plant - what type of soil do you have?

Loamy clay, slightly acid, a bit stony and very free draining.

Loads of plants sadly lost here due to the cold snap/excessively wet winter too....

2 x cistus
1 x huge phormium (that we'd had for years in a massive pot, moved several times with us and finally planted here in 2018)
1 x medium phormium
8+ euphorbias
1 x calycanthus
Several euonymus
2 x dwarf conifers
2 x bamboos in pots
1 x astilbe (others are all well above ground)
4 x veronicas

Plus 3 x mature standard bay trees (in the ground) all with brown/crisped leaves and I think they'll probably have to go.

We also have two very large gunneras that don't look too healthy either and I'm concerned about many perennials, checking for signs of life on a daily basis.

Fortunately all the roses we've planted over the past five years are fine, but it's typical that just when we're hopefully getting ready to list the house for sale and I was banking on the garden looking lovely, there are going to be lots of gaps.

i thought i had lost my laverteria but it’s growing shoots from the base now 😁. i’ve lost 2 hebes, a genista, a daphne and a cistus. i’m living in hope that something else will sprout soon.

Lost three Hebes have pruned back no sign of life will leave them in to see if they sprout from base. Thought Gunnera had also succumbed to the cold but now showing new growth.

That's good news then. I just want the weather to warm up now.

It looks like we've lost 3 Hebes. 1 has survived, but it is all brown and crispy in the middle with only the outer edges still green & pink. It is going to look a bit ugly for a while until it fills in! Strangely, the one that survived is in the most exposed position for cold and wind, gets the least sun, and in what tends to be the wettest position. I'm leaving the dead ones for now in the hope they may bounce back now we have a bit of sun and a rise in temperatures (forever the optimist!). They only went in last year, so I'm gutted! I have already bought a new one for a new raised bed I've just built. The last time we had temperatures as low as the winter gone was 13 years ago, so I'm hoping it was just bad luck.

We have also lost our Camellia, although it has never been happy TBH and I am glad of the guilt-free opportunity to replace it now. We were gifted it and have tried our best, but our village is pretty exposed and it never flowered in 5 years. It survived the -12, snow, and high winds over winter and had plenty of leaves and buds on it, but that more recent snap of -9 finished it off.
I suspect we've lost a couple of ferns too, as those have no sign of new growth. Again, they were new in last year, but were thriving in their damp shady spot spring-autumn. I am going to leave them a little while longer too in vain hope.
I had expected to lose a potted Salix (again, not yet fully established), an Acer that is in a less-than-ideal position, and the 3 new Hydrangeas, but they have surprised me!
We also are on a heavy clay soil.

We've had 12 months of weather extremes so my guess is that the plants which have survived should carry on.

We have lost our hebes too, such a shame. It has put me off buying anymore tbh.

I lost two hebes too....it was the -7 spell we had, I'm sure of it.

We lost thymes and hebes. Just one large one which seems ok. They are in sheltered place but I don’t think it was sunny enough and also the weather like all of you. Do hebes need full sun? I love them especially for the bees.

Our very old usually very floriferous camellia only has five flowers this year so like PP taking it out. We have planted a quince against the wall in the same space and it is going mad, so might try some more.

I’ve lost my hebe too. I’m devastated. It was covered in butterflies last summer. I remember once counting 22 at a time.

It was -8 here for a week in December. I guess I should be grateful that everything else survived.

My Pittosporum that I planted three years ago and was thriving beautifully is now a bush of completely dead twigs, it is so disappointing.

I've lost several large shrubs. I am in the south east so the temperature has not been as low as some places. I thought they died due to the extreme heat and drought last summer in a south facing garden with no shade.

I think the combination of the stressful dry and very hot summer, the exceptional minus cold temperatures and very wet winter weather has been a lethal combination I have fingers crossed for a bright side, blossom on the fruit trees looks promising but not many bees about so hope less high profile insects are on the case pollinating

Also lost two hebes. Been advised to wait until end April to cut back and check for new growth. They’ve only been on two years, neither flowered though.

Four out of seven hebes seemingly cut them back and waiting and seeing

Same here and a French lavender which is an annoying mistake as I bought the latter in Feb / March

I didn't think this winter was as bad as previous years eg 2018-19 (I think, the year of the Beast from the East). There was still snow in the ground until May where I live.

But the hebe survived - they are like cockroaches.

Once they're gone, they're gone, plus they're an absolute devil to burn. We put an old one on the bonfire and it took weeks to finally burn through.

Lost 1 x here, and one-off the old rhododendrons.which was planted in the 1920s. Both on the same side of the garden. The daphne is fine.

Omg 4 dead hebes for me too. And they were well established and protected.
so expensive to replace too

We lost geraniums in the greenhouse, havent checked the hebes yet as they usually sprout again if I ignore them. You can put horticultural fleece around tender plants.

Our heather does very well. Bees and hoverflies love them. Drought resistant, frost resistant, long flowering season. They came with the house, I love them.