Are my plants dead? [Pics]

Hi guys,

I know absolutely nothing about plants and am just wondering can you tell me are these plants dead? Have had them around 3 years and after every winter they have grown again. With the exceptional frost and snow this year are they now dead? Is there any point on waiting for them to bloom or should I just dig them out and start over. Can someone recommend some plants that are year round and require no maintenace and where is the best place to get them please? My wife and I are not green fingered at all!

All help appreciated. Thanks







I think the plant on the bottom left in the below pick somehow survived.




Apologies wasn't able to embed the pics properly, when editing my post I could see them using the image button but when I clicked save they just appear as links

I am not sure what kind of plant they are exactly but........... don't dig em up now.....ground temperatures have been below 4% until a few days ago and the ground is only now starting to warm up and in a week or two lots of growth will be spurting up. I would wait 6-8 weeks and then look for signs of life, you could be very surprised.

Do you know what types of plants they are?

They look fairly shot to me.

i'd cut them right back and wait and see if any new growth.

if nothing happens after a couple of months then they're probably goners.

you'll probably know when you cut them back anyway, if there's a bit of green left in the stems there's always hope.

good luck, i hate when i lose a plant.

Theres an old saying among gardeners;
They are not dead ,their just pretending!!
You would be very surprised to see how a plant that looks obliterated come to life when the weather gets warmer.
Hang on in there.

The one in the left hand corner of the third photo is definitely not dead. I think that will definitely come back. Looks like some kind of hebe.

Has anyone had any cordelines (sp) and what has happened to theirs with the snow. My cordeline in the front garden survived the big snow and I was laughing at next door's because it went like a stick and all the leaves fell off it but then fell at the last hurdle with the extra snow about 3 weeks later. They sent me a text to point out the karma.

Mine is not like just a stick, the leaves just look kind of flattened.

All around I have seen lots of cordelines that are now wilted looking. Wonder if it will come back. I have it about 9 years and it has moved house with me twice and was still growing away.

Manda I had a beautiful 9-year old cordeline right in the front of my garden - it stood tall and proud at about 8ft until the snows.

It now looks like the flattened rushes you'd see on the side of a riverbed. The snow lay on it for days/weeks and weighed it down.

I can't see it recovering, but a very wise old gardener once told me that if there's anything left of a plant at all, they have a good chance of re-growing when the time is right. So hopefully, over the next couple of months, with a bit of heat and rain, who know.

Pity the weeds manage to come back every year without fail.

Thanks for all the advice folks, might give it another few weeks and see if they start growing again

MandaC said:

The one in the left hand corner of the third photo is definitely not dead. I think that will definitely come back. Looks like some kind of hebe.

Has anyone had any cordelines (sp) and what has happened to theirs with the snow. My cordeline in the front garden survived the big snow and I was laughing at next door's because it went like a stick and all the leaves fell off it but then fell at the last hurdle with the extra snow about 3 weeks later. They sent me a text to point out the karma.

Mine is not like just a stick, the leaves just look kind of flattened.

All around I have seen lots of cordelines that are now wilted looking. Wonder if it will come back. I have it about 9 years and it has moved house with me twice and was still growing away.

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Yes, I'm another cordeline death by snow victim, the existing leaves are definitely gone but I'm hoping it might start new growth somewhere else when it gets warmer.