Survived the snow etc - then lost it with the last frost.
Garria elliptica ! (spelt wrong I,m sure ! ) it is a beautiful shrub . I thought it was a tough one . Has it completely gone ? Debs
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.
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?
Next door had one, when we arrived and it suddenly keeled over one spring... :-\
You mean this, Shirl? January last year. Binned the eventual super 'tassles' - 10" - pink & green.
They rarely get through up here - 650'.
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?
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.
Yes Tim thats the one. What a shame it has died, Will you be getting another one.
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.
You can take a pic next year if the frost don't get it Tim