As you rightly say, its the 24th of February - which means its still winter, not spring. Give it till end of March before deciding its dead.

Yes, I agree. I am waiting to see if I still have my baby one, only planted last summer :(

Mine has suffered this year - I have a lot of dead wood to prune out. My Solanum laxum looks REALLY bad, but I'm still hoping!

It's so depressing isn't it? My Ceanothus looks really bad, but it will just have to stay as it is until I can be sure it's really dead. Both of them look horrid!

I have definitely lost two Ceanothus and the other two look awful. I took out my beautiful hebe today - it was simply an eye-sore. Sob, sob! I have got two rooted cuttings though!

Nice planning/insurance there B! Well done. So sad though isn't it....still, that's life.

I had a look at my Solanum today and the cold has badly affected it - but there looks like lots of bud activity so it seems like it might be recovering :-)

2 of my Hebes have sufered really badly this time and sadly I think I may be digging them out - time to get the books out to see what I will replace them with

Yes, Paul, that's the good part of losing something isn't it...choosing something new to plant!

I've been browsing the catalogues and websites for ideas for under the contorted willow. It's quite a large space without my pretty hebe!

How about some alliums (or other summer bulbs) there B...easy to plant just now and you could put something else for ground cover if you wanted to.

Like Spritz, Im sad to lose the Hebes and Im now wondering what to replace them with. Im a lover of Choiysa but theres only so many a small garden can cope with..... So replace like for like ? - A few roses perhaps ? (but more maintenance - though I like squishing greenfly)

Choose a hardier Hebe - Autumn Glory for instance, if you can find it.

Oh, I don't know Paul, you can get quite a few different Choisyas in a small garden :)) I lost all my hebes last year and will not buy any more. How about a Viburnum Davidii?

That was one that I lost this year Bamboo :-(

Yes, all mine were that var too.

Oh dear, that's very unfortunate Paul.

I've just ordered an Indigofera to replace one hebe in a sheltered corner. I've also ordered perennials for under the willow tree. :-)

Choisyas are one of my favourite plants Karen, but I have 3 varieties and 6 plants in total in my garden which comprises a postage stamp at the front, a slightly larger back garden and a sloping strip along the side, so another Choisya would be slight overkill.

Having lost 3 Hebes and being in the process of removing an apple tree, finding space for the 3 Sinocalycanthus that Ive just ordered shouldnt be a problem :-)

Indigofera looks lovely Spritz - good luck with that

Thanks - it arrived and I planted it! That was quick, wasn't it! :-)