Topic: Shame, really?

[tim]

Survived the snow etc - then lost it with the last frost.

[woodypecks]

Garria elliptica !   (spelt wrong I,m sure ! )  it is a beautiful shrub . I thought it was a tough one . Has it completely gone ?  Debs

[asbean]

I thought they were tough as old boots.  Ours was, I seem to remember.  That's abeautiful specimen you have there, Tim, shame if it's had it.

[shirlton]

I remember one outside our doctors. I had wondered where it had gone. I thought to  myself " why would anyone want to get rid". It probably went the same way as yours Tim. Do I recollect the plant being on one of your other posts?

[saddad]

Next door had one, when we arrived and it suddenly keeled over one spring...  :-\

[tim]

You mean this, Shirl? January last year. Binned the eventual super 'tassles' - 10" - pink & green.

They rarely get through up here - 650'.

[terrier]

Sad to lose such a lovely shrub. RHS website suggests they are frost hardy possibly down to -10. Maybe it was a case of just coming to the end of it's natural lifespan?

[PurpleHeather]

Watching a TV programme recently about 'pollarding' trees, I wondered if we  let a lot of our shrubs and trees grow too big. So that they can not cope with extremes, the young and slender ones can.

In view of this I would consider that the cause of death, in this case, could be a combination of obesity and pneumonia.

[shirlton]

Yes Tim thats the one. What a shame it has died, Will you be getting another one.

[tim]

Only just back on line - holiday time??

Sorry - didn't mean to scare - no, not dead, just the racemes. They almost always catch it.

Really annoying that I've lost the close-up photos I took last year, showing the pink & green bits amongst the silver, & no photo on the web shows that.

[shirlton]

 You can take a pic next year if the frost don't get it Tim