Waaa! My tulips and daffodils froze to death!

With our freezing temps, snow, and high winds, it was just too much for them. I think the hyacinth are also goners. Only the muscari look unfazed. Man, I hate our weird weather!!! Just 2 days ago it was 80F!!!!!!!! Tamara

My sympathies. Or rather, I should say 'My empathies'!

I lost my daffs, but they were almost finished because of the 80F days. I'm on the verge of losing my eremurus, lilies, and baby perennials tonight. It's like a wake around here for me today!

Not a lot we can do about it I guess since the cold wave is suppose to last for several days...For one night I think I could cover them but for several nights it might be too much for the neighbors to take!

Upon good advice, I covered my new hyacinths with inverted large flower pots and held them down with rocks. They still can breathe and since there is NO sun, only snow, I hope they will make it. Scared to go look at them. The daffs are a different story--stiff stems, brown bent over bluds that never had a chance to open. We moved here last March from Utah but the weather wasn't like this our first spring. I feel like we live in a "snow globe".

Here in the south we too are freaking out with temps dropping into the teens. My Clematis are in full bud and most all perenials (sp) are up with buds or blooming. Covered as much as possible last pm but am sure there will be quite a few losses.
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Zone5girl, you won't have blooms this year but the bulbs should be fine and bloom next year.

I don't know what you mean by baby perennials. If they're new plants, they could be killed. If established, they will probably be okay although you'll lose the new growth. Lilies should be the same. Mine are only up an inch or two but I covered them.

Although they have been predicting temps in the 20s and teens the last two nights, it hasn't gone below freezing thank heavens. Knock on wood. LOL I hope the forecasts continue to be wrong. I've covered up as much as I could.

if you take those bulbs that have bloomed and are finished and can dig them up and put in pots in your fridge for a total of 6-8 weeks they will rebloom for you again.

We bloom tulips and Daff's at all kind s of weird times. Onc e they finish and the foliage die s back we take and give them another chilling period for at least a 6-8 week period or leave in the fridge longer if we don't want them to rebloom again til July or August. Then just take them out and let bloom again and repeat the process.

The only thing is sometimes you will see what looks like a fungal mold on the top of the pots by the bulbs. This is not a mold it will disappear in a day or so once you bring the bulbs back out into the warmth.

Maybe doing the above will help some of you feel better about missing yoru bloom season.

i totally feel for you. just last week we had to put the a/c's in and on it was so hot with 70-80's but the sun was bad thought for sure spring was here it was like summer. i think i lost all but daffs,tulips and stuff not up yet can't see nothing else it's all covered. totaly killed my lilies and some others by the look of it.

i just want to cry this weather stinks, everything here got frosted twice now and is under 4" of snow. before that it was so hot it was like a start of a summer drout. about a few mths back we were in 3ft of snow, i just don't get it and everyone around is sick from the bad weather changes and it's miserable on top of it. i have way to many things to put in the false dormant stage so i will have to wait till next year i guess. alot these would have been my first year to see and they had flower buds it's such a shame, ya know. waiting all this time to find out ya have to wait another year to see it. i just pray something makes it out there and not all is lost.
silkie

Silkie, I'm right there with you. A lot of first timers got zapped before they even bloomed...heck, they hadn't even established decent foliage yet. I don't know how that will effect them for next year (the ones I'm referring to specifically are in containers...the bulbs got planted late to begin with and were in less than stellar shape). Guess I will have to wait and see. Our forecast for this week is pretty dismal. At least I have some seedlings indoors to cheer me up. Tamara

I feel your pain. The last time I recall spring weather like this was in 1979, when I came back from spring break in Florida to find my car at the Detroit airport covered in an inch of ice!

A few of my daffodils out by the street are actually plugging along despite the cold. The rest of the yard hasn't fared so well. :(