What died on you this winter?

In some parts of thecountry it was bad it was not too bad where i live but i still lost a few plants including winter jasmin seems if a plant hardy or not you can still lose it

 

I lost two Solanum crispums, a blue one and a white one. The blue one was a few years old.
I've also lost a Euonymus. I've got a few and most of them are on trellises. They survived but the free-standing one looks dead. I haven't really checked it properly but it does look dead.

 

No sign of dahlias. Fragrant leaf pelargoniums froze to death in their pots. Callas, regular and Herkules, had mushy tops, but are coming back to life now. We had 3 weeks (1 each month) of when everything froze solid for an entire week.

 

I can understand quite a lot of that lot not liking the cold, @shiney but it's the hardy stuff that surprises me.
Laburnum for instance, Magnolia damaged, do you think it was mostly last summer's drought.

 

Lots of different nerines and species gladioli . They were kept dry in pots in cold greenhouse but still went squishy. Yet an amaryllis type in same location hasn't even lost a leaf.
Grevilleas - most gone. Acacias - baileyana and costinia gone but pravissima and boormanii ok. Watsonia gone but noticed a bit of green on aristea next to it in border!
And the echiums that were as tall as me and ready to flower this year.... blackened.
Sometimes I wonder whether to stick to hardier stuff, but this thread has shown me that even they suffered after that short sharp frost.

 

I've lost at least 2 big cordylines might be more but not sure yet.
Acacia pravissima appears to be badly damaged and might well be not worth keeping, Melianthus is coming back from the ground, it's done that many times before, pomegranate and Lagerstoemias now shooting.
I'm actually quite surprised what has survived.

 

I think it was a combination of things, the drought last summer stressed a lot of plants even if you could water them all, the high temperatures won't have helped; then there was rain and a long fairly mild autumn and a lot of plants produced young growth (reports of spring flowering shrubs reflowering etc). Then early December temperatures suddenly dropped and this young growth got frosted, plants weren't properly dormant and for some this was the last straw, especially as, down here, there was a seies of milder spells followed by a cold week.
I got off fairly lightly compared to many people with some pleasent surprises.

 

I lost an echium candicans which didn't surprise me, as it is was a young thing planted out in the borders last year. My salvias also took a hammering but I've not lost any; I thought a big old well-established Amistad was a goner, but it is now beginning to shoot again from the base. I would definitely advise people to wait a bit before hoicking out seemingly dead perennials, here in London at any rate the soil is so cold and the night temperatures have been so low that even well-established plants are further behind than normal.

My pleasant surprise was the dwarf papyrus in a pot in my pond, definitely not supposed to be hardy. When I took the sad-looking remains out of the pot, inside all the dead stuff were some viable roots and signs of new shoots. So they've gone back into the pot, and the pond, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

 

Good point @Clare G ,I think it is still early, weather wise, to be writing off things that are not shooting yet.

 

I agree with this, between about the 4th December and 18th there constant frosts and I had a data logger in my greenhouse that didn't go above -3c for 6 days straight and down to -9c, outside of course is less. Then you are in the darkest days of winter so little in the way of light for any chance of plants recuperating.

I don't have much in the way of perennials that got damaged but my overwintered veg pretty much all died. Even half the swedes which are incredibly frost hardy

 

The drought certainly killed somethings off, for example Vallea stipularis planted last year, a Calycanthus and a newly planted dwarf Rhododendron.
The cold (-3°C in greenhouse) killed off Iochroma fuchsoides, I coccinea, Salvia corrugata, a S gesneriiflora. Survivors include two smaller S gesneriiflora, S darcyi, I purpurea, Fuchsia paniculata, these were defoliated and are just coming back some from the base or the stem.
A couple of nerines were mushed as were some other small bulbs, a couple of hippeastrum were fine though as was Sinningia tubiflora, a number of Amorphophallus and most of the dahlias.
Outside S confertiflora and S involuctra I think are definitely gone, but Impatiens tinctoria, I balansae, I insignis are all shooting, I flanaganae, I pritzelii, I gomophylla yet to put in an appearance, I gomophylla is the most tender. Eriolarynx australis (Iochroma australis) is sprouting as is Mitraria coccinea, hates dry weather and is fairly tender.