Texas Freeze Aftermath!

[Ken N Tx]

Looks like these plants did not make it through the freeze!!

 

[Aunt Marg]

It doesn't look good, Ken.

What a shame.

So hard to see slow-growth plants requiring such care to get them to a mature, shaped stage, gone.

 

[Keesha]

That certainly is a shame. It will be difficult not seeing your usual plants around your home.
Hopefully within time some of them will grow back. Wishing you the best.

 

[Aunt Marg]

That certainly is a shame. It will be difficult not seeing your usual plants around your home.
Hopefully within time some of them will grow back. Wishing you the best.

That's the problem with ornamental shrubbery, unless there's uniform growth throughout, the ornamental value has been lost.

Best to start from scratch.

 

[Keesha]

That's the problem with ornamental shrubbery, unless there's uniform growth throughout, the ornamental value has been lost.

Best to start from scratch.

I fully agree. I was merely offering ‘hope.’

 

[RadishRose]

Sorry to see this @Ken N Tx !

 

[Liberty]

Looks like these plants did not make it through the freeze!!
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What kind of plants are they Ken? One looks like Mexican Heather? Thinking to let them sit for a month and they will come back from the roots if your ground didn't get frozen. Sometimes you yank them out of the ground too soon. Keep them watered good and maybe shake some fertilizer on them.

 

[SetWave]

My son outside Austin lost some beautiful trees.

 

[fmdog44]

The palm trees look like they were poisoned with bleach

 

[Ken N Tx]

That's the problem with ornamental shrubbery, unless there's uniform growth throughout, the ornamental value has been lost.

Best to start from scratch.

Yes the full growth may never come back.

What kind of plants are they Ken? One looks like Mexican Heather? Thinking to let them sit for a month and they will come back from the roots if your ground didn't get frozen. Sometimes you yank them out of the ground too soon. Keep them watered good and maybe shake some fertilizer on them.

I don't really know what they are called. A nursery told my son that if they have any green, around the bottom,to pull off the dead leaves to leave room for new buds to grow out..Time will tell but it does not look good..

Nursery's are now running are out of plants as they too have been hit with the freeze!! Some said they will take about 3 years to bounce back!!

 

[Remy]

That's bad but as long as the house made it through, that's more important.

 

[Liberty]

We were at Lowe's yesterday and the garden center looked like a war zone...people everywhere buying shrubs, shrubs,
shrubs!

Our Sago Palms look like monsters from outer space...had all the frons cut off so the new growth could well "grow".
I'll try to take a picture, but I promise you, it won't be pretty.

 

[Gary O']

Looks like these plants did not make it through the freeze!!

Best laid plans......

Reminds me of life up at the cabin

If the freeze didn't get things, critters would

 

[Lethe200]

Oh, that's a bummer for any gardener! So sorry to see the damage.

We're in yet another drought here in CA so it's going to be a rough year for my garden. Lesson learned; next life I will buy a LARGE house with a SMALL garden, and not the other way around!

LOL!

 

[SetWave]

Oh, that's a bummer for any gardener! So sorry to see the damage.

We're in yet another drought here in CA so it's going to be a rough year for my garden. Lesson learned; next life I will buy a LARGE house with a SMALL garden, and not the other way around!

LOL!

Were you around in the seventies when the drought went on and on and on? Lots of dirty cars and dead lawns.

 

[JustBonee]

The palm trees look like they were poisoned with bleach

The many palm trees around our apartment complex really look distressed. So far, nothing has been removed ..... just trimmed.
Maybe there is hope for a few of them.

 

[Ken N Tx]

Our Iris came back strong!!

 

[Liberty]

Yep, Ken, bulbs usually do. Our red lilies are fantastic this year. Gave a bunch to my good friend just recently. Glad yours did well!

 

[Ruth n Jersey]

@Ken N Tx that is such a shame. It is heartbreaking. Every spring I walk around our yard hoping nothing froze out over the winter.

 

[Liberty]

@Ken N Tx that is such a shame. It is heartbreaking. Every spring I walk around our yard hoping nothing froze out over the winter.

We put freeze cloth around some of the plants that are more tropical. It protects down to 24°. Think the only thing we lost this year was a big old Rosemary bush...it was starting to die anyway, it was older than dirt. Also lost the pool pump. Hard to cocoon a swimming pool pump!

 

[Ken N Tx]

We are trying to save 5 of our shrubs but I think we maybe pulling them out!! They will never be the same..

 

[Aunt Bea]

Did you ever notice that the weeds don't seem to freeze?

 

[Keesha]

I think you’d be best off getting brand new shrubs. It will probably take at least three growing seasons to get them back to where they were.

That must be depressing. We get used to the plants that accompany our home. They become welcoming fixtures.

 

[Ken N Tx]

I think you’d be best off getting brand new shrubs. It will probably take at least three growing seasons to get them back to where they were.

Problem here is that growers/nursery's also got hit and plants are hard to come by!! Homeowners have already dwindled supplies at outlets!!

 

[Ken N Tx]

Did you ever notice that the weeds don't seem to freeze?

And pesty bugs!!!