What died on you this winter?

I know lots of us have lost some partially tender plants this year in the freeze, but I keep hearing of people having lost plants that have been considered hardy for years being lost.

I'd be kind of interested to know what has been killed that would have sailed through most winters until this one.
Basically stuff that has been around for more than 15 years as the last really bad freeze I remember was around 2009.

 

Interesting that a long established Hibiscus croaked, that's mostly the kind of stuff I'm thinking of, the things we assume are basically bone hardy here.

 

The Acacia dealbata, two Cordylines, three Salvias including a well established Hotlips and three other Salvias, Lavender Stoechas, Grevillea Canbera Gem. Ostespermums and Nemesia.
Brahea armata.

 

Osteospermums? I assume that is the hardy creeping kinds rather than the bedding types sold in spring.
Not good about the Brahea armata, good plant to lose.
Lavender another unlikely one perhaps? But I think that one is slightly more tender than the bog standard one.

 

Hi Folks. I lost my two wallflowers, one purple and one orange, both were bought new last year. I am not sure what else I have lost, I should check my plant tags to see.

 

Oh, and my camellia, which was in a pot as I have the wrong soil for it. Looking very dead this year but I will give it a little longer to be sure (or until I run out of nice pots lol)

 

Spartium junceum, two Prostantheras, a Grevillea, several Hebes and a couple of Artemisia 'Powys Castle', but the Hebes and Artemisias were plants raised from cuttings and hadn't been in more than a couple of years anyway. Waiting to see whether a seed-raised Eucalyptus gunnii that I'd chopped back to a 1.2m, 20cm diameter trunk will sprout again. It's not looking too lively at the moment.

 

Loofah, That’s good you have some left. I think it’s particularly cruel when the plants you put in pots to give them a better chance bite the dust….. expensive plant, nice pot & all the special ericaceous compost!

 

When did you chop back the Eucalyptus, to me that's a spring job around now but probably earlier for you.
it sounds like it was reasonably big.

 

Plants in pots are more likely to snuff it in a cold winter compared to ones in the ground, they are the most exposed as the roots freeze.

 

Last summer. It had just started putting out new growth but that's what got hammered over winter. Never had any problems with gunnii before Still, it might come back yet. I chainsawed the UK one down to ground level and it still bounced back

 

I've killed some Eucalyptus by cutting back too far on old wood but not gunnii.

I think out where you are I'd have let it do its thing.