The great artic blast came through, and it was not very good for my flower farm. The wind tore the covers off my plants, and even the ones who were covered had a hard time of it. Lets take note of what survived and what died.
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All my 🆒 flowers got froze. I forgot to cover it. That's fine. Everything can be fixed except the death. I'm in purcellville VA zone 7
Foxglove will come back. Mine does with not covering them
I would stick the seed in the ground and pray to Mother Nature to let it grow
Close to you here outside Texarkana. That wind was brutal. We got to 6 degrees with -11windchill. Most of my cold vegetable crops are toast, even with cover. Covered feverfew is dead in spots but new growth is coming out. At least we kept power and we're all OK, except for a few people have busted water pipes.
It seriously made my heart so happy for you to see your eucalyptus survived and how happy you were ❤️ Don't cut nothing back until Spring. I just watched a live video with the Gardener's workshop on cool flowers and she said many times just the foliage dies off but the roots will be ok. Fingers crossed for you!! But even if it doesn't, you are a rockstar and will replant in the Spring!
Crossing fingers & toes for you Jessie. I am thinking that maybe a lot of those roots have survived. As for eucalyptus &, as an Aussie, in my experience, it is difficult to kill eucalyptus! They come up here in lots of places l don't want them ( such as under fences) & if you don't pull them out while they are very little, they are extremely hard to kill! I think, if the human race became extinct, eucalypts would take over the world. 😆
So sorry Jesse! I know how much ot sucks to have all of your hard work jist get killed… I'd definitely leave it until warmer weather, you'd be surprised at how things can bounce back!
What was your ACTUAL temp? We got down to
6 here in Southern Indiana. I forgot to look to see what it said the actual windchill was, but it was expected to be -20 I think. In zone 6a, it says we get down to -5 according to our hardiness zone, butsince Ive been gardening at least- I don't remember it getting below around 15 degrees!I only planted ranunculus & anenomes. I didn't do any other fall planting because I just don't have enough early spring sales to make all that labor over the fall & winter worth it (I took a risk on those, only because I love them enough that I'm perfectly OK with not selling the ranunculus &/or anenomes & them staying in the garden & being mainly for my own personal enjoyment 🤷♀️ Also, I felt I needed to do more experimenting on the best tome to plant/grow those, so that I'll have the best date ranges for planting them honed in on more! 😁)
This is so crazy for your zone! I've had foxgloves endure quite a bit! I'm hoping they make it! (Zone 4 here)
I also had a lot of my coverings blow off – it was not quite as cold in Beaumont Texas but was in the teens. All of my feverfew, statice, some snapdragons and young yarrow did not make it. Much of it was impacted by how I covered. Not used to covering and will do a better job next time. Love to watch you – there are few flower farmers close to my zone.
I think most of your plants will be ok. Feverfew, Sweet William, Canterbury Bells, and foxgloves can survive Canadian Zone 5 that goes down to -23C. They will come back!
I think you will see regrowth. I’d just cut back and give it time. 😊 I only have one layer of cloth and it was -39 here.
don’t give up yet, we get temperatures like that for most of January and February (below -5 not including wind chill!) and while the tops die back, things like yarrow, foxglove and feverfew will easily survive those temps. I don’t cover those at all, and I can overwinter eucalyptus in my unheated greenhouse. Maybe even sweet William, but I haven’t grown that. Sometimes tops die back but the root area is perfectly fine, while with other things the top growth looks fine for a few weeks after the plan dies before it visibly withers. Give it time! Those things I mentioned first will likely be perfectly fine.
Foxglove, Sweet William and Feverfew should bounce back! Always survives my Michigan winters 🥶
Don’t cut any damage! Most of it will come back!
They will be fine. I live in Northern Maine zone 4a and I don't even use row covers for anything that I overwinter.
Bummer Jess 😢
Where did you get your hoops
I think a lot of farmers woke up and cried because of that horrid wind! Artic hurricane force winds were just too strong. I may have lost most of my honeywort and my statice is pretty ugly looking too.
I live in North Texas and had the same bizarre weather and had the same thing happen!! I covered but that wind and extreme cold (for us) took my frost cloth off. Don't cut nothing down just give it some water and most will come back. 💚 Hang in there!💚
You are a trooper! If I lived closer I would come and help you! You have put your heart and soul into your flowers! Here's hoping a lot of them grow back!
Don’t tear it out! I’ve had this happen before and it looked dead, and then little bits of green started coming up from the bottom in early spring and they were alive!!
Jessie, do you have a soil thermometer to take a measurement @ 4 inches? Even a digital bbq thermometer will work. Hopefully the soil temperature was much warmer than the air temperature. In my Zone5 garden, tulips and daffodil bulbs winter over underground. Dahlia tubers,, glads, etc turn to mush when they get frozen but I bet your soil is still warm enough to insulate your bulbs.
As so many others have said, DON'T give up on anything!!! For most, if not all of them, the roots are probably fine. It's just the foliage that has died back. I bet you will have loads of things regrow! 😊❤
I have a small market garden in NC and all of my stuff died. Herbs and veggies. I didn't have a lot but so sad isn't it… we just have to keep pushing forward for the spring garden!
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Dear Jessie. Sad to see the weather made havoc in your garden, but I am sure most of it will grow back if you just give them time. ❄Many of them like sweet william can take frost in a long periode of time, and still grow back. Thank you for letting us getting a sneak peak of your christmas. 🎄 Happy New Year to you and your family. Love from Norway. ❤
Congratulations on the eucalyptus! That is awesome news! And perhaps some of your other plants could be a-ok? Like, some scabiosa pincushion flowers are hardy in my Zone 5b (-15 F.) and I’m hoping they grow and perennialize — will be looking to YOU (which feels so bizarre given you’re in La.!!!. Wishing you most excellent luck growing new seedlings. This Christmas video … there were ups! Downs! Deviled eggs! Deviled seedings. We’re dying to see how it goes from here!!
I haven't experimented much yet with cold hardy annuals (I'm in Canadian zone 5, so basically US zone 4).
But last year, I transplanted sweet peas seedlings 8 weeks before last frost. They froze multiple times and died, but the roots were still establishing and when the warmth arrived, they shot healthy new shoots very fast.
Give those plants a chance to surprise you in the spring!
You need some windbreak girl! Plant a hedge around the garden. Plant things that you can use for cut flowers too like hydrangeas, crab apples, viburnum, berries etc. That’s why your eucalyptus survived bc it was sheltered by all those trees behind it
Jessie I have heard you can water them before the sun hits them.
I think you have a chance of your plants being ok. I’ve learned from Lisa Mason Ziegler that your fall plants die back to the ground but the roots are ok and grow back in spring
So sad for you!!
I'VE been really busy and I had to see what happened?!?
I lost lots too! It ONLY got down to 20 degrees here in North Central Florida!
Good luck, and never give up!
Hopefully, we won't see temps like this again but with the way things have been, it wouldn't surprise me i f it happens again!!
Keep on keeping on!!
Last year the heat killed my crops
I watch your flower farm from up in Anchorage, Alaska. Don’t pull anything! Most of those plants grow in my area. I’ll have my fingers crossed that your plants come back! I’m still a few weeks from starting seeds, so you’re still far ahead.
If you spray all those dead looking plants with water now before they thaw out they will survive just fine,if you don’t, they’ll be gone.
Take cover girl, you are now under a Tornado Warning!!! Be safe!!
I am in zone 6 now, Jessie, and I have daffodils coming up…..in January……in zone 6. They are about an inch out of the ground. "We are not in Kansas anymore". This zone thing is obsolete….at least to my eyes. Everything out of season. Just a few days ago we were 70….after -35 real feel Christmas Eve. I'm still gonna plant flowers and veggies no matter what.
Any perennials that died back will be alright, Jessie. They will continue to grow when it warms. The annuals do not. They are gone for the season. Just replant.