Topic: real surprise at frost resistance

[Icyberjunkie]

Perhaps I should get some bubble wrap for the tender plants like canna's but then I say that every year!   Still to late now after all these hard frosts.  Have been amazed though thatmy favourite clematis is STILL flowering!  (Bees Jubilee) Thought I'd lost the flowers after the first frost when they were all shrivelled but nope - they've sprung back to life.

Has anyone else got some oddities like that?

Iain

[undercarriage plan]

Yes! LOL! My cup and saucer vine is still growing away quite happily, and a self seeded nasturtium is flowering it's little socks off! Box hedging is sproutingd new growth,  roses budding, but weirdest of all, I have Narcissi out and flowering bout 3 months too early....

[Georgie]

Yeah, some surprises here too.  Still got Pelagoniums, Salvia 'Victoria' and Borage in flower despite a couple of frosts.   :)  Sadly though, my Cape Gooseberries have copped it.   :(

G xx

[dibberxxx]

well Icy i have wrapped my tree fern and gunnera,s up  nice and tight in there fleece for the winter , have not done nothing to the cannas just moved the pots closer to the house . I still have a rose in bloom, and have lost no leaves yet off of my clematis, have nasturtium still growing every where but the frost has hit them a bit , even have a marsh marrygold in flower in the pond , seems plants are lasting later every year well it has been mild till the last week

[Mimi]

I still have a fuchsia flowering and buds too, despite the hard frost.  Still got roses,lobelias,geraniums,vibernums,hypericums and some busy lizzies (hard up against the outside wall)  and the escallonias are still in flower too.

[Mrs Ava]

Still have dahlias and fuschias doing their thing, plus cerinthe seedlings everywhere!

[Icyberjunkie]

Maybe we should all get together and do a winter garden with all these flowers!  Could get an award for the colour.... ;D

[undercarriage plan]

Mine just died  :'( blessed typical when finally close to big shiney cup.. ::)

[Gardengirl]

I also have a clematis still flowering Icy, despite quite a few hard frosts.  Mine is Rouge Cardinal.  Also still have a few roses  in bloom.  All the rest have been completely blackened by the frosts.     Virburnum and choysia still going strong and have loads of buds on my winter flowering clematis, lost the label but think it is Winter Beauty.                                   

[adam04]

two acers still going, ones begining to lose leaves and has turned bright red, the other is just sat there, exactly liek it did during the summer!!