I spent some time in my yard today and confirmed something I thought I noticed earlier - several of my bushes really suffered from our recent Arctic storm. Three Chinese Fringe Flower don't have a green (or red) leaf anywhere on the bushes - only little dry brown ones. My potted shrubs that I bought last Fall, the Silverberries, are dopping their leaves. Finally, the Photinias that screen the back yard from the street have large sections of dying leaves turning dark brown when they should be green. I haven't seen this kind of damage here in North Texas. We have had other periods of cold with snow here, but these bushes didn't suffer like this. Even my Daffodils which had emerged but hadn't started to bloom when the storm came show dead ends on their leaves. I wonder what else might have been effected.
I am counting ANY green on a plant as success. My garden is young....less than three years old. I have baby trees I worry about most. My button bush and two paw paw seedlings were leafless already and so already looked lifeless. The buttonbush, I heard, is notoriously late to leaf out, so I will be holding my breath metaphorically until it finally does. The paw paws eventually should be carefree trees, but the first couple of years in the ground are the delicate ones, so I am concerned. Aside frome my scarlet sage and pineapple salvias looking dead-dead, the rest of my yard fared decently. ( I reseeded some scarlet sage today). Satsuma came through, though I see no blossom buds at all. I even had a spider plant that had been outdoors for two years, I had stuck in an unheated greenhouse, put a frost blanket over, and it looked like a pile of dead slugs. But it is now resurrecting itself from its little tuber-roots!
For paw paw to fruit there must be 2 which you have. I have only one and it has spread over the decades & I had one fruit last year. I am watching it in amazement that it has spread subterranean.
@Mooolah ooh, a fruit! If you see another this year, you can harvest its big seeds and plant them right away. Don't wait. They lose viability quickly. They need genetic diversity to up their fertility, so any seedlings will be more useful than a vegetative clone or sprouts from spreading roots of the first tree.
I have several plants suffering, also, and ferns that had been holding well are bruised and smashed, all now cut back (almost time anyway). What I had was 4-5" layered ice & snow, very heavy.
Don't trim anything for another couple of weeks, there is a lot of superficial damage that will simply fall off and new leaves will sprout. I have to keep my pruning shears locked up right now. If it is dead, letting it stay will not make it any deader, if it is just damaged, cutting may expose it to disease and insects that would otherwise not be a problem. I inspect almost every day, and I see more damage and more reasons for hope. That -2 did a lot of damage, just don't make it worse.
Good advice, Thanks. I'm hoping everything comes back in time. I just don't remember things being this effected in previous years.
Some important branches can be tape together as a broken leg.
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