penstemmon R.I.P.
On Mar 7, 10:28*am, eggplant
wrote: Hi everyone. Hope you've had a good gardening weekend. *SO here's my question. It was a pretty atrocious winter. Here in S/W Kerry we had the most snow and the longest periods of frost since the sixties. *Can you help me make a hard decision on whether my penstemmons failed to survive the winter or whether I need to be more patient? There is absolutely no green anywhere and the twigs I have broken off snapped off cleanly - brittle with no bend at all. I'm more than a bit ticked as they're four years old. *Does anyone feel they might bounce back with more time. Its really hard staring at dead plants. *Thanks for the advice. -- eggplant I'll vote for patience...I'm in Oregon and my garden took a beating this winter too. We had prolonged record sub-freezing temps, snow and hit a low of 9 degrees which burst pipes all over town. At first look my Penstemons (Sour Grape & Apple Blossom varieties) looked stone dead. Made a note to pull them, but when I went back to actually clean the beds a week or two later, way down at the bottom of the very dead stems I found the tiniest little green leaf buds. Have had them die way back before and as long as there's a spark there, they seem to recover and bloom vigorously. No harm in giving them a bit of time. Nancy T |
penstemmon R.I.P.
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