What have you lost this winter? Let's compare notes.

Hello Ange , we also lost a Daphne, over priced rubbish plants in my opinion , also lost hebe. Magnolia , due to me moving it I think though . little alpines here and there , but due to bad planting in incorrect places , too wet

Hi Paul. It's bad enough that the plants reject our nurturing, but I think about my pocket, too :-(
All the pittosporums that died were new this year and quite expensive... I'm beginning to agree with you about daphnes - they're temperamental plants. But one I had in a pot lasted years so perhaps that's the way to go.

Oh dear, poor you Ange. It was definitely the coldest, longest winter I can remember, but my losses are nothing I’m too sad about.

2 Diascia
1 Daphne
Few Salvias
1small Acer
Anemanthele
Carex
Few Pelargoniums
1 rose
Penstemons

My Olive tree looking sad, but we re-potted it yesterday, so fingers crossed.
I chatted to one of the managers at local garden centre yesterday, sympathising about the “terrible” Easter weekend, but he said it was better than last year. And the car park was full(!) so people are busy filling gaps I guess.

I take it as a personal insult when plants die on me, Sheila ;-)
I see you've lost a daphne, too.

In the actual garden I lost Sorbaria, Pieris Rialto, Dicentra and the new Hebes, all very young ones, my plants in the garden recovered very well and my spring showing is amazing even if I do say so myself, I'm a very relieved and happy gardener.... In the g'house was not too bad considering I don't have heat in there, the fuschia's survived but none of the pelargoniums, succulents and special alpines did very well and apart from a few babies of which I have many, I lost a couple of aeoniums, luckily I have spares and haworthia's also have spares, my largest two cacti got hit very hard but I don't give up , remembering advice from Coreside Sandra and Hywel many years back I have treated them and both are now producing new growth
...My hodgepodge insulation methods saved them, at the end of the day it doesn't matter what it looks like as long as it works.
I forgot to say that the two mini g'houses I stood inside the big one are now acting as propagators for my seedlings, its working better and quicker than my electric ones and I'm saving on electric, its win win all round Ange....

Amge. It's definitely an interesting talking point and we can share our frustration!
I had a gifted sorbaria from a patient that succumbed :-(
A fuchsia.
A camellia.
A clematis.
A monarda.
A Japanese anenome.
Plus some rockery plants too.
I did have an evergreen in a pot that would have had yellow flowers- can't recall the name - gone!
Remembered a hebe or 2, but, they never seem to thrive in my garden.
And I've a teeny garden. :-/

Oh, I forgot: most of the penstemons, too!

Lincs, most of my stuff in the g'house has come through ok, but it has been heated. Started taking stuff out today only to discover some infested with mealybugs and scale insects.. You can't win.
Glad all is going well in your garden, though.

Oh Kate, what a winter! I'm sorry you've lost treasures and it's even more annoying when they're special gifts. I have decided no more pittosporums (altho' I love them) and no more hebes. I really must rationalise.

I have lost a geum, gaillardia , choisya , salvia, Ange and I am keeping everything crossed that my new perennials will still come through, it is so sad when we have put in so much hard work, but thats gardening for you, or I should say weather.

I am not really sure what if anything to be honest. It hasn't been a particularly long cold winter. Lots of very cold bits with then very warm ones. I also think many plants will have been put under severe stress caused by the hot dry summer and would have died over winter anyway.
little consolation when we have spent hard earned cash though.

I remember I have lost Clematis Rebecca.

I think if we get a drought as well this year I shall give up gardening altogether, Meadow! My salvias and fuchsias seem to have come through unscathed, thank goodness.

I think you are right about the negative effect of the drought then a hard winter having an adverse effect on plants, Sbg. I think my Rebecca may have gone, too!

I may have lost an agapanthus but I will give it a little longer as it is in a pot on the pond wall.

I appear to have lost Penstemon Garnet but checked my monarda today and there's leaves appearing, think everything else is OK

We lost nearly the entire contents of our greenhouse!! These were mainly pelargoniums ( many scented ones), fuschias and begonias.
Outside our Daphne is looking very strange indeed and I don't expect it to survive for much longer! We also lost a Clematis Montana that had been in the garden for a very long time. We have replaced it with two new ones.
It was a harsh winter following that very dry summer.

Remembered I've lost 2 alstroemerias in pots too I covered them to protect them but they've gone

D'lily: 'Garnet' is one of the few penstemons that survived for me. I've lost alstros in pots in the past but this year 2 have popped up in the borders that didn't show at all last year so I assumed they were no more. Very odd!

My pelargoniums all passed too, Rose, except one. I shan't try again. Osteospermums for me this year!

I was surprised to lose Garnet as I've had it a few years, my alstroes in the garden are OK too :-)

I planted 2 Eryngium bourgatii - Mediterranean sea holly - in my new pebble garden last summer. I hoped they would do well as I live near the sea on the south coast. They died over winter. Today I replaced them with a couple of Armeria caespitosa 'Bevan's Variety' - thrift, sea pinks - still hopeful that they will do well near the sea. They seem to grow well in the wild, clinging to rocky cliffs with very little soil.

Thrift, I love eryngiums and so do our bees. This spring we bought some root cuttings in a packet cheaply from a supermarket, didn't think they would come to anything but they all took off once we worked out which way up (or across) they should go! I'm about to plant them out. Sorry to hear you lost them. It's strange, I can't keep armeria at all, so there you go. I hope they do well for you.