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Cold snap! Death and destruction! What will survive? What can I d

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Posted by missbhavens 5 (My Page) on
Thu, May 1, 08 at 15:54

Horrors! After two gloriously freakish weeks of warm weather in the Catskills (70F in April! Nuts!) all my tulips and bleeding hearts came up too soon and we had a devastating 29F night last night. When I went outside today all the tulips were hunched over like floral vultures and the bleeding hearts were quite literally flattened as if they'd been stepped on.

Is there anything I can do to save the bleeding hearts? I feel as if the tulips are beyond help, but it feels sooooooo early in the season to give up on the hearts! Should I cut them back? Leave them alone? Wait till next year?

Any help would be appreciated.

Signed,
Broken Bleeding Hearted

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actually the tulips will recover....but not the bleeding heart.
That happened to mine last year, I did get a little puny regrowth, and this year they are up and blooming but not as big as they were before the disasterous freeze.
My advice? Don't do anything....whatever had happened can't be helped. You could cut off the dead stuff, but there's no point in that....at least the dead stuff on the ground reminds you not to walk of dig in that spot.
My sympathy...
Linda C

  
 

 

 


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