My wife's pride and joy hydrangeas have been caught by frost. She is wondering wether to cut them right back. Any experts out there?
Are you sure it was frost?
My plants are the same as are the plants of two friends of mine!
We are putting the frizzled leaves down to too much sun, and lack of moisture at the roots caused by the dry/sunny spell we have had for the past month or more!
Check the plants at ground level and they will probably be a lush green colour!
Another one down to "Climate Change" in my opinion.
On a similar theme but this time regarding the poor flowering of Daffodils this year.
I put this down to last years spring weather pattern! We had the"Beast from the East" followed by record high temperatures!
Last year the Daffodils flowered long and late due to the cool spell but did not get the four or five weeks to die back naturally and prepare the bulbs (flower buds). I think my Daffodil tops got only about three weeks at best to charge up the bulbs and die back before they frizzled away!
Result!.... only a few flowers this year!
So that is two years on the trot we have had a warm April followed by a cold May ( as the weather people are predicting!)
If this is to be the "norm" (and who knows if it is?) I think it is back to looking at my diaries of the past 40 years and making adjustments to suit this trend!
But then again at my age, I why should I bother? I'm too old to be changing the habits of a lifetime now!
ps Hooray the rain is bouncing off the roof above me as I type this post!Typical! Was going to go to Harrogate Spring Show tomorrow. Will check in the morning and if needs be I will change my day to Friday!
Bl**dy British Weather!!!! 
