[tosca100]

My PSB is a real mess but I can't decide if the local wood pigeons may have contributed to that, time will tell. Kale is small but strong looking. Leeks didn't really grow much. The biggest surprise is that a lot of mediterranean stuff looks great...lavendar, cistus, rosemary, bottlebrush is ok. The olive looks better than it ever has! And I'm already picking parsley and chives. Our Viburnum has been wonderful this year, best it's been in six years, flowered since October and is smothered in strongly fragrant flowers still!

[Thrift]

You've done really well Tosca. You must be way ahead of us ..... not even a blade of grass growing yet !

No longer the Emerald Isle; it looks more like Africa ( without the heat ) 

[peapod]

My beautiful red cordyline bit the dust this winter...usually it can take any frost, so it didnt occur to me to take it in or protect it. 

[DavidT]

I cut my poor banana down today, I`m hopeful there is still some life in the rootball though. Peapod lots of mature Cordylines have failed in this area, some of them 7 or 8 feet tall.

[Paul Plots]

I'm not sure about the results of the Big Freeze yet although there are a few plants not looking so spring like yet - I'll need to wait and see...

But I am not best pleased that my OH has buried a few under cat-litter during the colder weather

I tend not to fiddle with the borders (last attempt to plant in them ended up being shifted  ) so it's the OH who will be wearing gloves come tidy-up-the-borders time      :blink:

I'm sticking to my allotment and the "no cat-litter" method! 

[AnnaM]

Even though I lost my jasmine, I do have some basil and bay leaves left but they are looking a bit worse for wear despite the improved weather. Any ideas on rescuing them before its too late?

[JayG]

Looking at the foliage of my young Cordyline (only 2 foot high so no "trunk" to speak of) the last flicker of life seems to have been extinguished. 

Personally I think it's "had it" but I've heard that these plants sometimes can regrow from the base if the roots are still viable.

Anyone out there have any experience of this one way or the other?

[Puenktchen]

My Passion flower (Passiflora caerulea) which I have grown from a seed years ago and which was covering the fence surrounding our backyard looks not very good  . I had to cut it down nearly to the ground because the stems looked brown and dead. Only just above the ground they still look green. I hope it will recover as I am really attached to this plant (planting the seed, seeing it germinating and growing bigger and bigger unites  )

[tosca100]

It should recover if the roots are OK. My mum used to cut her's right down every year and was always worried it was the wrong thing, but it always came back.

[Puenktchen]

Oh thank you, this gives me hope 

[Paul Plots]

Looking at the foliage of my young Cordyline (only 2 foot high so no "trunk" to speak of) the last flicker of life seems to have been extinguished. 

Personally I think it's "had it" but I've heard that these plants sometimes can regrow from the base if the roots are still viable.

Anyone out there have any experience of this one way or the other?

Give it some time... we've tried killing off all sorts of similar shrubs / trees  only to have them reappear from under-ground... A few years back a huge palm was blackened by the frost, centre dead so we cut it down... later had about four to tackle as they sprang up all over the place from the root.

[gypsy]

Not actually lost the spring cabbage but it looks very tough, my bay looks like it got too cold and may have died, as does the rosemary. I was surprised that the parsley next to the shrubby herbs has survived.

[madcat]

Isn't that the strange way of things?  My bay needs feeding up but has come through okay, but the parsley is a sodden pulp, above and below ground.  (The pigeons got the cabbage.  )

[peapod]

It should recover if the roots are OK. My mum used to cut her's right down every year and was always worried it was the wrong thing, but it always came back.

I was going to bin mine, but I remembered hearing this, so have cut it back to about  6 inches of trunk and keeping fingers crossed

[Paul Plots]

My PSB is not looking to happy... awaiting the purple sprouting bits still