Pacific Northwest Gardening: What are your losses from the past winter?, 0 by susybell

susybell wrote:
Lost-well, my patience for waiting on a few things. I think my digging them up to see if they were still alive was the death blow....bad Sue!

Lost: 1/2 of my medium-large Rosemary, 1 tricolor Hebe , but it's known to not be very hardy, so not a shocker, salvia Black & Blue, salvia greggii, several other salvias, some pennisetum little bunnies-lost to my patience waiting for them to recover, a pot of pink muhly grass that I hadn't gotten around to planting, a scutellaria violet cloud, one white agapanthus that I didn't cover, possibly my passiflora-died to the ground and still no new growth, a cordyline or dracaena (no tag) that survived two other winters, maybe a dahlia, but I'm still hoping on it, and a new Kalypso euphorbia.

Damaged: two other Hebes-if I hadn't covered them, they'd be toast now, my Ceanothus vandenberg, a small phormium, two Azara Microphylla that survived in 1-gallon pots but are just now starting to get new leaves, one of my bamboo culms snapped in half with ice-when I went out trying to get the ice off they sounded like wind chimes, Nandina Plum Passion is finally looking decent again, phygelius has recovered pretty well and bloomed on time. I may cut it to the ground every year-it's behaving itself much better so far this year.

And of course, some lilies to vole damage, plus the Lotus Crassifolius Otayensis (sob) due to repeated breakages and catnaps (errr)

One bright spot, though. I've got to say that I was darned impressed with my Helena's Blush Euphorbia. It was a new 4" last FALL and it took the weather like a champ and turned the most totally awesome color besides-this is in Feb, not a great shot but the color is about right. It's supposed to be hardy to z6 and judging by how it handled itself, I'd say it qualifies...