What plants will be alive after all this snow melts?

Ct horticultural society offering at the flower show. Picture doesn't do it justice.

I love how they worked the stone.

I thought this was pretty different.

Nice use of color.

I forgot to add the pic LOL

It all looks really nice! Glad you got the chance to go......did you buy anything?

Lots of lilies: Cobra, Double Sensation, Tamburo, X factor, Fabiola, Belonica, Eyeliner, Lamardia and some nice peonies Black Dragon, Henry Bockstose, Blue Chrysanthemum, Black Mulberry and Show Girl, also red moon DG tree to be picked up in spring, fell in love with Coral Drift roses.and a bush called Diervilla Cool Splash. Did not have a lot of new plants, a little disappointing.

Sounds like you did just fine... I would love to see those lilies as many I have never seen or heard of before as well as those 2 peonies. I saw a picture of coral drift and it looked wonderful. Patti

No red lily beetles, dem? They have totally infested my gardens, I have to treat lilies like annuals, and that's after spraying a million times!

Marilyn: Have you tried Bayer Tree and Shrub 12 month Drench?
What are you using that isnt working!!!!

NO bug problems anymore. I love that Bayer 3 in one, works wonders for roses and perennials. I have a HUGE beech tree, one of the oldest in this area, not quite as big as the one on the grounds of the place across from Hartford Hosp, but close. Had a scale blow up one spring about 5 years ago, called an tree guy and they used the bayer stuff(although I don't think they meant me to see the bottles!) $100.00 worth of product, cost me $579 and change. Now, every spring I use the bayer tree and shrub product in early spring and walk away.

Bayer products have Imidiploid in them. Different products have different strengths.
This product in a drench is used for Red Lily Beetle her as well as for Iris root borer.

Doesn't kill good bugs too??

How about my well smack in the middle of the yard?

Hmmmm, not sure bout the well issue.

Yeah, that kind of scares me!

The melting snow reveals the damage.
The first time I see this type of damage. Each branch is stripped down by the heavy sinking snow on this young Butterfly bush.
Andy P

Oh NO! Thats bad, so sorry Andy. Maybe im not wanting it to melt after all.....

BB should recover okay from the roots.

I expect the B'Fly bush to sprout up fine. I just never saw such branch stripping before. This particular plant sprouted from a cutting I stuck in the ground as a row marker.
This is a mulberry tree that's going to look weird once it gets cleaned up.
Andy P

I'm dreading the day my plants emerge from the ice.....especially worried about my crape myrtle.....

My dwarf weeping chain is laying down, still too much snow to check if it just heaved or if it snapped. And it's 11 stinking degrees here. But sunny!

I'd be thrilled with 50 degrees, no sunshine and no wind. Amazing what we'd all settle for in March.

LOL pill, it was 47 yesterday and I was out walking the pups after physical therapy, felt good to have the sun on my face without a window between us!

That is the truth!

Looks like I lost one rhubarb as only one of the two is starting to sprout - probably because it is too near the furnace exhaust and didn't get enough chill more than anything else. I need to order a couple more anyway as I really like rhubarb! that, for me is the first sign that winter has to end - the sprouting of the rhubarb.

Memory, you are way ahead of us up here.....what do you do with the rhubarb? I like it raw with salt.....

Raw? Never tried it that way. I just "stew" it with sugar.

My gram gave it to me raw with salt when I was a child, & I was hooked on it....of course, I also like rhubarb cake & strawberry-rhubarb pie!

We ate rhubarb raw while holding a handful of sugar for dipping. yummy
My sister made the most disgusting looking but delicious rhubarb upside down cake. It was so ugly, lol. We scarfed it up.
Andy P

The only rhubarb thing I don't like, is rhubarb jam...too sweet!

I eat rhubarb raw dipped in sugar, I love, love, LOVE Strawberry -Rhubarb Sauce for breakfast w/toast! HMMMM-mmmm good!!! And I use it in my Bumble-Berry Pie

my mil makes the best strawberry rhubarb pie!

Thats Brians favorite Bill!

my mil makes him pies too?

LOL No, but if she's ever short on rhubarb he'll bring some all the way from Maine....for a pie:)

we have two big clumps of it growing here - i've asking cindy to pay close attention:)

I don't like strawberries.....I know that is a sin. But I might try using the rhubarb this year in something. I grow it because I like the way it erupts from the ground in the spring. Patti

Don't like strawberries?!! Rhubarbarian!! ^_^

Don't worry, Patti- I live in Maine and can't stand blueberries. I DO love strawberry rhubarb, though. Yum. I don't grow it and wasn't aware it came up so early

My SIL doesn't do B.berries either and he's surrounded by blueberry barrens. LOL