Did the cold snap damage your garden?

[rockyroad]

Here in Memphis, it was so incredibly warm...even hot...for several weeks and then it got down in the 20s for a couple of nights.
Really wacked my garden good.

Ruined the blooms on all my azaleas.
Yesterday, I went to my mom's.
She lives 14 miles from here and the azaleas in her neighborhood look beautiful.
I'm glad they do and I enjoyed looking at them.
There's always next year I guess.

I wish that I could afford to put in a bunch of Encore azaleas, but I have a huge area and they are 10 times the cost of the standard varieties. I've been working on puttin gthem in for about 7 years. There are about 100. but there are still not enough to show up really well.
Maybe later I can come back and scatter some in among the spring bloomers.

It took me 10 years to plant enough daffodils and for them to multiply enough to have a good show.

I need a longer life span.

The cold also killed the leaves on the crepe myrtles, but I believe that they will recover well and it is a long time before they bloom.

 

[LBAK]

I'm sorry to hear abou your azalea's. We've never really warmed up yet so my plants are OK I think. I always worry about my crepe myrtle. It's the last to bud. I am on the south shore of Long Island, just about zone 7 and as long as I keep it sheltered during the winter I get great blooms in the summer.

 

[bobbiwoz]

A huge loss around here is the crab apple trees. They were all ready to bloom when the cold hit, and it's relentless. Now the tips of all of the branches as well as the flower buds are dying. My dogwood trees were begining to open, and they too are stuck...lilacs as well.

We had beautiful forcythias this year...and daffodils and very eary hyacinths.

The Cincinnati Flower show is an outdoor/in tent flower show and it's in 2 weeks. Now a few weeks ago the weather was fine for an outdoor show, now it's certainly not. I'm not buying advanced tickets this year, I'm waiting to see what the weather will be like.

Bobbi

PS. Your Azaleas will be beautiful!!!When they get set to grow, they do!

 

[UrsulasShadow]

It never really warmed up much around here, so the cold only did minor damage to some things. One exception I noted was the Jap. hollies. It didn't get cold enough for them to go dormant, so when we had a cold snap, they suffered a ton of dieback. A few bulbs got nipped, too.

 

[Kahana-ri]

My poor rhodie bush (rhododendron) suffered a bad freeze burn. This poor bush looks terrible with dying brown limbs. It’s the largest bush in the yard and the only one that was affected. I hope it comes back to life

 

[clh2]

From Wisconsin - my daffodils were coming up beautifully before we hit a cold snap as well as 8.5 inches of snow. (The cold snap here was about 1 week) I was so ticked off.

Much to my surprise, though, they started to bloom this weekend. If we would not have had the cold snap, the daffodils would have been very "vertical" in their display. This year, the shape of the display looks like a ball that has been cut in half. I hope that makes sense. The leaves/stems wilted in the cold weather, but the flowers still bloomed.

Not ideal. But I am glad to have the blooms. Daffodils are my favorite springtime flower and to me living in Wisconsin really signals the end of winter.