Washingtonia Robustas 8" of snow = bad news! + garden pics!

[cordyman]

Evening guys,

So if my Robusta's make it through this i'll be very impressed. Had 8" of snow in Manchester today on top of 2 weeks of snow/ice/frost.

My fleece wrapping probably isn't doing too much good right now as the Robustas are completely buried!

They were only £5 from b+q and I certainly wasn't moving them after i'd put all my compound down.

Yesterday was -8 on the car dash which is the coldest i've seen it this year and then today -0.5 and 20 minutes digging my car out to get to work

The huge cordy which I transplanted seems to be holding up (after looking very sorry for itself for 2 months) and the Pheonix palms seem to be unfazed by the whole deep freeze.

Time will tell

I can't help but love this weather though



Heres a end of summer pic, i'm off out with the camera for some "after" pics!

[jezza]

At that size i personally wouldn't hold my breath for those washys surviving.

[Bamboo Stix]

wave em good bye, far too small to stick out in snow lol

[Dave Brown]

They are seedlings Cordy and won't take much more than -3C at a single time, but night after night with almost freezing days probably no chance especially with -8C thrown in

[cordyman]

How about the Pheonix's, just been out and they're totally covered!

[jezza]

-8 is their limit at a more mature size. I lost a 6 footer last year with a fleece on.

[cordyman]

Right heres a pic of the big cordy after the move, with loss of some of the tap root

and leaning heavily/bent trunk





some pics from outside coming up...

[Imran Khalid]

How about the Pheonix's, just been out and they're totally covered!

You might be lucky, but I would expect the worst.

[Nigel Fear]

Hopefully its not too late for you, but cant you get a few canes banged in the ground around those palms of yoursand wrap em round with something?

[cordyman]

First the good news, removed all the excess leaves on the cordy at the end of summer (which went brown quite soon after the move anyhow) and she's looking very healthy & a lot straighter even with a igloo block of snow in the crown






Cordy in the back garden close to the house where the snow isn't as deep




Flax, two more cordys, and some buried bamboo




Fargesia Jumbo seems to have shed all the snow and back to upright (love the sky in this pic!)





The funky reed





Two buried pheonix's, and hidden Robustas! The rock almost buried too

[jezza]

If i were you i would remove as much snow off those washys and Phoenix canariensis_CIDP as you can, then, for just tonight, stick some bins or similar upside down over them, it'll give them half a chance to recover. Then tomorrow you can get some protection sorted out.

[stephenprudence]

we got it light to everyone else it seems, 2 inches we got here, well the south looks like its going to get battered. Even the south coast is getting pasted right now!

[cordyman]

Thanks for advice,

i've uncovered the robustas and the side leaves have snapped under the weight of the snow, best to leave the leaves on broken then prune them off i guess?

Just searching for some big containers

i read 40cm for the south over the next 3 days?!

[cordyman]

7am this morning >>>




Winter wonderland >>>




Small twigs, lots of snow >>>

[jezza]

It's only been snowing here for 2 1/2 hours and the leaves on my trachys are bent almost to the ground. I might pop out and shake the snow off before i go to bed.