damaged foliage

[Hagen Engelmann]

In the time of Study Day and Gala in England we had terrible black frost in Germany.  14 days with temperatures of 23°C under 0, often with a lot of winter sun.
Here you can see the results:
Galanthus elwesii monostictus, November flowering
All plants of this type have heavy damage.
The leaves were well developed and winter sun was deadly.

[emma T]

oh how awful 

[Hagen Engelmann]

Early Galanthus plicatus, here COLOSSUS (but also THREE SHIPS)with long developed leaves.
Also heavy damage on the whole plant.

[Hagen Engelmann]

DING DONG and PERSY PICTON were only  cm out of ground. They died soo young.

[mark smyth]

  something I have never seen before

[mark smyth]

Is this caused by deep frozen leaves thawing quickly in warm sunshine?

[Hagen Engelmann]

This is a real wonder and my hope: TRUMPS without any problems

[RichardW]

the only plants showing signs of similar damage here are reginae-olgae, the foliage which normally looks quite nice is similar to your 2nd image everything else is fine & I've not seen it before, did go down to -10 for a few nights.

[Hagen Engelmann]

I saw all your fantastic galanthus areas in South England and was happy.
No, I saw a few areas only and was happy also.
But here in Germany is the homeland of the greens. Should I change??? No!!! Never.

[loes]

My newly acquired krasnovii all look terrible and a few colossus

[Alan_b]

The sales table for expensive snowdrops at Anglesey Abbey had quite a few similar ones today, not as bad but the same sort of damage, spreading upwards from where the plant emerges from the soil.

[johnw]

Hagen & Loes  - So sorry to hear of your terrible losses. I have never seen such damage and it is sickening.  One can only presume it was caused by the foliage being far too advanced. Would you agree? (I now see your Ding Dong & Percy Picton comment) I say this as Cambridge was in flower here until roughly 20 January but the leaves had not grown more than they had in December, it was untouched by -13c without snow cover here and the ground quite frozen.

We had similar devastation here 5 or more years ago.  December and January were very mild, the Hellebores in the coldframes started to flush out and then it got cold but not extremely so for here.  But they were just too far advanced, the new growth froze off and then rot set in. We lost many plants including some of our best selections. Those in the garden were fine.

I trust your bulbs will send out offsets with luck. Might it be wise to give a drench of fungicide?

Now I'm getting worried about those in the coldframes....

johnw  - +5c and clouding over.

[Alan_b]

Early Galanthus plicatus, here COLOSSUS (but also THREE SHIPS)with long developed leaves.
Also heavy damage on the whole plant.

My Three Ships had not completely recovered from the cold weather here, the leaves remaining rather flaccid.  I dug it up for inspection but no signs of disease or damage, just harmed by the cold weather I think.