Frost! - what died and what survived?

Lots of dead Cordylines and other usually hardy palms in Oxfordshire.

Dead bay trees and a nice Viburnum bodnatense. i was told that bays have suffered terribly - havent replaced it yet might have to use the dried leaves(yuk).

I lost my lovely bay tree - It was in a pot, perhaps would have been safer in the garden. Here in Norfolk lots of cordylines are looking very sad, but do not despair....We dug up a cordyline 2 years ago and little plants keep appearing from a root which we obviously missed, you might just be lucky and be able to extract one and start again. Good Luck

I lost my Rosemary which was a replacement for the one I lost the previous winter! Several other plants which I thought I'd lost have struggled back to life - hooray! (In Cheshire)

I lost 2 cordylines and a Californian Lilac (can't remember the Latin name). Both the cordylines were well established, about 10 years old, and my DH decided to just cut them down and leave the stumps. Have just noticed that on both of them I have baby cordylines making an appearance at the base of the stumps.

Should have said I'm from Cheshire.

A dead bay tree, variegated myrtle bush, New Zealand Fern tree...all gone. Our large Hebe Kirkii survived but a smaller one didn't. The Ceanothus, Sacred Bamboo and Rowan trees struggled but appear to be OK now. Our Silk Tree survived - although it took a long time to come into leaf and we were beginning to get worried. We live on the Staffordshire/Chesire border.

It looks from comments so far as if it is non-native plants that have suffered most. Have other people found that too?

Also in Oxfordshire...many, many yuccas around here are dead. Mine has a new shoot! And a very few did survive and are now flowering. I hoped mine would, but it now has to start over.
Cordyline in a pot is still alive but a lot of dead leaves - it was protected from the morning sun.
And the other thing I have seen is that a lot of ash trees kept their seeds on and came into leaf very late.
Not sure about my potted bay bush.

A lilac bush growing on the top of a bank actually came of the ground, roots and all, because of the weight of the snow.

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The only thing I lost, here in Nortumberland, were pentemmons (sp?) - this is probably because we lost so much the previous year.

A friend who lives in Essex has said that she has lost lots of trees and shrubs - things they had planted to cope with droughts, couldn't cope with the very cold winter.

A grower on the radio said that evergreens suffer because they carry on drawing up water and losing it from their leaves even in the cold. But when ground frozen, nothing to suck up. My bay, which is planted in the ground is absolutely happy and unfortunately winter did not kill off the pest that makes its leaves curl. I dont want to spray it for obvious reasons.
Has anyone noticed a shortage of bumble bees? I tend to plant things they like but i think they are much fewer this year.

I'm in Kent and we too lost a large branch off the lilac tree due to the weight of snow. Thought we had lost our olive tree and started to cut it down but suddenly noticed buds coming through so it's fine (just a bit smaller!!) Lost some Bishop of Llandaff Dahlias but that was my fault for leaving them in

We have lots (really lots!) of bumble bees and a swarm of (presumably feral) honey bees has decided to come and live in a disused chimney today. I've had to rescue a few that fell down the wrong chimney into our wood stove. Now I've lit a small fire to discourage them. Shouldn't be a problem in the unused chimney. I hope!

We've got a lot of bees in the garden. Not sure about actual bumblies though.

I was amazed at how much stuff survived the cold winter, the only plants we lost were already poorly before the winter. We only lost one dahlia (all left in ground) that really surprised me. My neighbour lost his Corylines, but even those are breaking from the base. I have about 20 Bonsai, they all survived with no protection.

I Thought my Ceanothus was dead and cut it down leaving the stump in the ground. Much to my surprise it is now sending up lovely new shoots. I too lost my Cordyline in a pot. When I went to replace it I noticed that the garden center had an abundant supply at a much higher price than previous years!

Nothing seems to have suffered in my garden. But then my gardening is more a limitation exercise than anything else. Left to its own devices it would be forest in a short time, which is quite encouraging in a way — unrepressed nature coming back in strength when given the chance.

Apparently bank voles (which we have in the garden) and field voles did really well in Scotland through the last two cold winters — something about the snow and ice giving them some insulation from the cold air (because they stayed underneath the snow a good deal of the time) and possibly some protection from their usual predators.

My pittosporum died; I'd bought quite a large one to keep in a pot and it was rather expensive.

Sorry about your pittosporum. I'm just off to google it. I've had to google quite a few of the names of plants that suffered from last winter's weather.

Done that. Ah. I'm not familiar with those plants.

Maybe Scotland normally a bit too chilly? I was really pleased that my little hedge of Hidcote lavender has recovered, 'cos it had a hammering. Not even the tiniest bit of green. And surprised to see a daliah sprouting. The tubers in the garage turned to mush but the one that got left in the ground (bit big gangly to really want it again) sprouted up. Would never have made it if we hadn't had an extremely dry spring, which has limited slugs...
I did see some beautiful yukka flowers last night in the school garden - great big spikes of creamy bells.

I lost a pittosporum the winter before last. The gap it left has been filled up by the adjacent philadelphus which is now rampant. Last winter, my bay tree, which barely survived the previous year, finally turned up its toes and is sadly missed.

I used to visit Hidcote a lot when I lived in Oxfordshire.