Mid-Atlantic Gardening: 2013-14 Winter damage?, 0 by wind

wind wrote:
our PB shrub made it, but we had lots of damage... our huge blue hydrangea has a just a little sign of life at the base, but all the branches look pretty darn dead. Several butterfly bushes look dead, even one that was 10 years old. Some bb have a little growth here and there hinting at signs of life. I pulled out one bb bush today that seemed all dead. ALL of our rosemary bit the dust. I dug and cut out most of the dead plants today. Our huge gorgeous Vitex looks completely dead too. So surprised since it is so large and established.

Our little stick of a fig tree of 5 or so years, that finally yielded us figs last year for the first and last time, died too. I'm just going to leave the dead tree there for another month just to be completely sure.

Today, we planted a Chicago fig. We also ordered a few cherry trees and planted them today. As for the hydrangeas, I don't think I'm trimming because I do see a few branches with greenish hints of life. But, if by the end of the summer the hydrangeas still look awful, I plan on cutting them back or replacing them.

our little dead fig on the left; new Blackgold Sweet Cherry semi-dwarf supreme on the right