Recent Frosts - any damage?

[angie]

Mark that's sad pictures I do hope you wont lose your lovely plants.
Angie

[mark smyth]

Pots in the green house are defrosted and the news is very bad. I think my entire Nerine sarniensis collection of about 30 pots is dead. The bulbs are mush. Only one person to blame

[angie]

Mark, 30 pots you have lost , you must be devastated, lets hope some of your good friends on the forum can help you out with some new plants.
I think I might have lost some plants that I had in my polytunnel, will just have to wait a wee while to see whats what.
Sorry Mark

[mark smyth]

Maybe I'll not start with Nerines again. The sad thing is the double Nerine pudica is now just a photo

[David Nicholson]

Sorry to hear than Mark. It's very difficult to tell, at this stage, what I have lost.

[Martin Baxendale]

Maybe I'll not start with Nerines again. The sad thing is the double Nerine pudica is now just a photo

Maybe you can partially console yourself with the thought that the double may well have reverted to a single this year. Start again, though. 

[johnw]

Mark - If any bulbs have a bit of good material could you not twin scale before the rot spreads?

johnw

[Susan Band]

I had an order for Sanguinaria and tried the soil in the field. It was totally unfrozen even although we have been below -3C for 3 weeks now, with it going as low as -14C. I just cleared the 1 ft of snow off the bed and then lifted about 1/2in slab of frozen soil. The soil underneath was dry and soft, better than sometimes in the summer. This gives hope to all the bulbs in the field I am sure they will be okay. The ones in the boxes will be a different matter I would think. It will be a long time before they defrost I am sure the soil was more frozen before the snow 
Susan

[Michael J Campbell]

Frost damage dead list.

Dietes grandiflora.
All the Watsonias. all foliage killed to ground level, Have not checked the corms yet.
All Ceanothus.
All 5 var of Abutilons.
all Sophora.
Amarcrinum howardii is black and very sick looking.
Timbouchina.
All South African Cape heaths.

There will obviously be more causalties,but I won't know until the spring flush of growth.


 

[David Nicholson]

To cold to stay out and have a proper look. Clear blue sky but a cutting and strong east wind. All Lachanalias looking pretty sick with top growth wiped out.

[Ragged Robin]

Commiserations to all who have lost valued plants to the frost     Let's hope the Spring brings some recovery and all is not lost

[ashley]

Frost damage dead list.
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Sorry to hear that Michael.  I was very impressed at the fine tibouchina you showed us last year.

Here (~ 80-100 km SE of you) I've lost tibouchina and abutilons too, as well as most of my puyas, Beschorneria yuccoides, Banksia serrata, Boronia megastigma, Diosma ericoides, several Hydrangea spp., severall Leptospermum spp. except grandiflorum and probably all my colony of Myosotidium hortensia.  However Wollemia nobilis is perfect & Agathis australis looks okay too (although the brownish young foliage may hide frost damage).  The few watsonias at a south wall should pull through but a big patch of Dianella tasmanica looks fairly shook.  Under shelter of trees Dicksonia australis is usually evergreen here & took a hit too but should recover.  

Yes spring will be interesting ...

[Maggi Young]

I'm trying not to think about how many plants may be lost forever after this winter.... one which I do know has gone is Gethyum atropurpureum.... a kind gift from a fellow Forumist. We were keeping it in the cosy spot  over last season but it was left there in error over the winter wehn the summer warm spot becomes the winter cold spot with no undercable to portect from frost.... Grrrrr!!   I'm furious, i know it's my own fault for not  moving it... now it's dead, mush, gone... I'm  very annoyed with myself.

[Hans J]

Maggi 

Dont worry !
I will send you again bulbs of Gethyum when I repot my plant 

Hans

[Maggi Young]

Maggi 

Dont worry !
I will send you again bulbs of Gethyum when I repot my plant 

Hans

Hans, you are too kind.... but I don't deserve t it... I am a bad mother to these babies.