Frost! - what died and what survived?

baggy - I was at Hidcote in June - it really was spectacular. This was my second "visit" - the first time I was staying with my sister in Leamington and we packed a picnic; by the time we got to Hidcote it was pouring, so we sat in the car with said picnic, venturing out after a little while to have a cup of tea in the little cafe. The rain just kept on coming, so we gave up and went to the shops instead!

I saw half of a programme about the designer recently... I have been there once - should go again. but in the meantime that great little lavender named after it is just coming into bloom. it seems to have had some offspring - and strangely seems to breed true. trueish anyway. It's e perfect for a small area - the bigger lavender in the back is about waist high and growing.
Why are my cosmos daisies only abut 9" tall? Do you think they need fertililising?

Do you make compost, Jess? If so, your daisies might benefit from a dressing down.

Oh eck. We have two plastic compost bins that seem to boil down fast enough that we never have to empty them. The evil day approacheth though. One day when DH does not want to fit in a 45 mile bike ride and is willing to do wheelbarrow duty. It has got to be done.

From Warwickshire,I lost about 30 celtic cabbage usually very hardy.I don't know if it was the frost or the covering of snow that rotted the hearts,maybe a combination of the two

Re dead cordylines: we have lots of babies around the base of the (dead!) trunk. Too many really because we don't really want a multi (ten) stemed tree. So what should we do? I think we wait for Autumn and then cut some off? Also I'm wondering if I can pot up some for friends. Just tried cutting one off and it did not have any root of its own, so I'll try again in Oct/Nov. Any other suggestions please?

Central Scotland here - lost our bay tree in a pot too. Have bought a new one now and think I will overwinter it in our unheated plastic greenhouse thingy. Also, surprisingly lost a lot of heathers in pots. Well maybe not so surprising as when one of the pots burst (had a lot of cracked pots last winter) there was just a solid lump of ice therein.

I lost my beloved tree fern, DH bought it for me (from Homebase!) at a cost of about £27, it would have been around £100 from our local up-market garden centre. We had it for 3 years, it survived the first bad winter and it was really doing well. It was especially treasured because he bought it from his first months wages after a long period of being out of work. Sad to say, that situation has re-occured. Job hunting at 55 is a bitch.

I though I had also lost my agapanthus, but it has put out a few tentative leaves, so I have hope for it yet.

Carboncareful, I too have a fair few baby cordylines, DH took 2 (as you say, no roots of their own) and potted them up. So far they look ok ish, a couple of the very outer leaves have gone brown, but we are waiting to see what happens, as I would like to pass them on to friends.

I might follow your advice and try a couple more in Autumn, but I'm not sure that even then they will have their own roots, they just seem to sprout from the original, but I could be wrong.

Keep us informed!

My agapanthus survived here and is in bloom in S midlands. Despite v low temperatures. My poor dahlia that survived has suffered massive slug damage though. I noticed the other day that a massive clump of NZ flax (big spikes 2-3 metres) on a roundabout in w. midlands was re-sprouting from the bottom.

I split my big agapanthus two years ago. Last year, I thought the 'splittings' had perished, but now, there they are blooming away. In Cheshire.