{"id":4135,"date":"2014-06-08T21:10:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T02:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/?p=4135"},"modified":"2014-06-08T21:14:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T02:14:06","slug":"assessing-the-damages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/?p=4135","title":{"rendered":"Assessing the Damages"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dactylorhiza<\/a>

Dactylorhiza fuchsii ‘Bressingham Bonus’<\/p><\/div>\n

This past winter was probably not the coldest winter on record here in Maryland but it was definitely one of the coldest in recent memory. \u00a0In addition it featured drastic swings in temperature that have to have been difficult on plants. \u00a0Since I tend to push the climate zone with planting (nothing ventured, nothing gained), it would be natural to expect some casualties from the winter. \u00a0And there were. \u00a0On the other hand there were plants that exceeded my expectations. \u00a0So with every\u00a0survivor that returns to the garden by putting up a shoot\u00a0or flowering as normal, I take note and give them a little badge of honor as a veteran in my record book. \u00a0That includes the little European Spotted Orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsia) that came into flower this week. \u00a0The gladiolus, which I normally dig in the fall, spent the winter underground and have come back without much difficulty. \u00a0Cypella coelestis has emerged from hiding and the Roscoea have emerged again with their delightful tubes.<\/p>\n

\"Roscoea<\/a>

Roscoea purpurea ‘Spice Island’<\/p><\/div>\n

I was delighted today to find that the Arisaemas, which (with the exception of one plant) had been total no-shows in the garden, all decided to pop-up on the same day. \u00a0I \u00a0guess the interoffice growth memo was received on the Arisaema network today.<\/p>\n

However, as I said, there were losses. \u00a0Here is a list of the fallen.<\/p>\n

\"Rosemary<\/a>

Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis)<\/p><\/div>\n

All the Rosemarys bit the dust.<\/p>\n

\"Loropetalum\"<\/a>

Loropetalum<\/p><\/div>\n

The Loropetalum, with its delightful hot pink flowers, was always living on the edge here in Maryland. \u00a0I’ve already put in a replacement.<\/p>\n

\"Euphorbia<\/a>

Euphorbia ‘Blackbird’<\/p><\/div>\n

One of the two Euphorbia martinii hybrids died completely and the other was cut down to the ground. \u00a0The completely herbaceous Euphorbias all did fine.<\/p>\n

\"Mahonia<\/a>

Mahonia eurybracteata ‘Soft Caress’<\/p><\/div>\n

The lovely new Mahonia that we had planted last fall died completely. \u00a0It is on the edge of its zonal range, but it also didn’t have much time to get established before winter.<\/p>\n

\"Crocosmia<\/a>

Crocosmia ‘Walcroy’<\/p><\/div>\n

This lovely Crocosmia completely disappeared from the front garden, although the ‘Lucifer’ cultivar is still going strong by the back gate.<\/p>\n

So I think that was it. \u00a0Really not so bad all things considered. \u00a0I had fears that things like the 20 foot high Crepe Myrtle would get knocked back to the ground (which happened once before when it was very young). \u00a0But such was not the case. \u00a0A few branches lost but that’s all quite tolerable.<\/p>\n

Now we will get back to enjoying what is showing up day by day. \u00a0The Peonies are almost done. \u00a0Two of the herbaceous types were spectacular.<\/p>\n

\"Paeonia<\/a>

Paeonia lactiflora ‘Krinkled White’<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Paeonia<\/a>

Paeonia lactiflora ‘Scarlet Ohara’<\/p><\/div>\n

Both came from visits to Plant Delights<\/a> in North Carolina. \u00a0I can’t wait to see what Tony Avent, who is the heart and soul of the company,\u00a0has for me next year…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This past winter was probably not the coldest winter on record here in Maryland but it was definitely one of the coldest in recent memory. \u00a0In addition it featured drastic swings in temperature that have to have been difficult on plants. \u00a0Since I tend to push the climate zone with planting (nothing ventured, nothing gained), it would be natural to expect some casualties from the winter. \u00a0And there were. \u00a0On the other hand there were plants that exceeded my expectations. \u00a0So with every\u00a0survivor that returns to the garden by putting up a shoot\u00a0or flowering as normal, I take note and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,4,1,8],"tags":[11,38,42],"class_list":["post-4135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulbs","category-flowers","category-general","category-sources","tag-bulbs","tag-flowers","tag-sources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4135"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4147,"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135\/revisions\/4147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}