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| Nothing is coming up in my garden except my roses, clematis, my two aqualigeia and one phlox. There is no sign of the dozen or so coreopsis of various species. My rose mallow seems to be gone. It seems as if these guys should at least be peeking out and there is just nothing.
We had the hottest July in history and I spent $300 a month on water. I mulched, covered with leaves for the winter and hoped for the best. We had a very hard winter, but I was hoping the snow cover would help them. The hosta on the other side of the yard that got less attention are a foot high, but my long perennial bed seems to be mostly dead. :( Am I looking for them too early? |
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- Posted by gardenweed_z6a 5b/6a N CT (My Page) on Sat, May 7, 11 at 8:27
| janegael - I'm in north central CT just a couple miles south of the MA state line. All my perennials are up and have been for weeks already. The only things that don't appear to have survived our winter are hollyhocks. Even a few things that were sort of iffy in my zone are back. Most of mine were grown from seed via winter sowing and the plants grown that way are tough as nails but a few new perennials I bought and planted last year are also up. I'm so sorry yours haven't reappeared. After a winter like the one we had, seeing something green has been what I've been waiting for. |
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- Posted by buyorsell888 Zone 8 Portland OR (My Page) on Sun, May 8, 11 at 14:13
| I have given up on Coreopsis here due to clay soil, they don't like wet feet in winter, at least that is what Dan Heims of Terra Nova told me when I complained of death to him. Maybe your drainage isn't great? |
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- Posted by gardenfanatic MO zone5b (My Page) on Sun, May 8, 11 at 17:09
| So sorry to hear that. Since hostas tend to come up later than many perennials, that's a bad sign for your perennial bed. Deanna |
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| Yikes. What an expensive frustration for you! My coreopsis 'moonbeam' and 'zagreb' come back reliably each year, but newer cultivars like 'sweet dreams' and '?ruby limerock'? die consistently. They're just not as hardy, so I replant 'sweet dreams' each year as an annual. I wonder if the varieties you lost are the less hardy ones? If you also lost 'm' or 'z', I would start to wonder if you have voles.... Good luck deciphering the loss and determining hardier replacements. Some plants that I never water in my perennial bed (along with 'm' and 'z') include various daylilies, echinacea, nepeta, achillea. Choosing "xeric" varieties helps me manage my water bills! |
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| Rose Mallow Hibiscus can be very late to show! So don't worry about that one yet. Remy |
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- Posted by hostaholic2 zone 4 MN (My Page) on Sun, May 8, 11 at 22:54
| I agree that some of the coreopsis are not very hardy and they don't like winter wet. If the crowns were covered with leaves and they stayed wet they may have rotted. |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Tue, May 10, 11 at 9:22
| the only time i came close to the same scenario... i learned a hard lesson about fertilizing too late in the year ... the plants.. instead of hardening off properly.. where 'high' on late season vegetative growth .. and basically melted with the first hard frost.. and then rotted over the winter .... did you fertilize last year ... if so .. when .. and how much??? and how deep did you bury them under mulch ... they should be nestled in to insure that the soil stays frozen or cold all winter.. but not really buried ... they need air all winter long ... and all zone appropriate plants should be naked to winter ... mulching is all about keeping the roots dormant ... so as to avoid winter sun on dark soil ... if a plant repeatedly goes in and out of dormancy in a mild winter ... the first time .. they laugh it off .. the second time.. they get teed off, and show damage .. the third time it happens.. they simply die .... chin up.. hip, hip .. been there done that.. its all about the learning curve.. just dont give up ... ken |
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