Winter Losses
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Comments (6)BeeGuy: Are you talking about the entire hive being dead or just dead bees in front of the hive. You know of course that a large number of bees die protecting the queen and keeping the temp in the hive at the proper level. I check mine real regular and clean the dead bees away form the front on the hive but then when I checked it again there are always more dead bees. On one of ouy recent warm speel 70+ degrees I opened the hive and there were still plenty of bees there. This may not be your answer but you are on the right forum to get the right answer. Hope this helps. Barnabus...See MoreNo Winter Losses
Comments (12)Only three out of about 215 so far have not to come up. Two of those where planted late in the season last fall. Both had frost heaved on me and the crowns where pushed above the mulch. But what took the worst of it was my hydrangeas Three are showing no signs of life. Not even coming up from the roots. The big Surprise to me is the dwarf Nandina domestica in the back yard. It is not is the most protected location. After a normal winter It looks ruff with most of its foliage drooping and burned. This year it shed all its leaves and the stems turned almost black. In the last two weeks she had flushed out. Fuller and better then it has ever looked!...See MoreWinter losses
Comments (28)Lynxe, good for you! You're not rubbing it in at all, glad your faux pas' worked out like they did!! I had one hosta in a pot and forgot about it, I had laid it on the North side of the garage, under the eave and it looks fabulous. Go figure. I found another loss last night, 'Fort Knox'. That one kind of made me feel bad, it was the "friendliest" hosta I owned. The leaves would catch the breeze and out of the corner of my eye it would look like someone was waving. A very bright and cheerful hosta. I'll probably buy this one again, but the others I won't. I'm sorry others had winter losses as well, but Deb is right, that makes room for more hostas. I guess the snow theory is bogus, huh Pat? We had scant amounts of snow here, but it got very cold. I can tell, because the buds of all my hydrangeas were frozen, that only happens at around 0 degrees. I don't know if cold is a hosta factor. Donna...See MoreWinter losses
Comments (6)So sad. I lost about 10 over the winter. Only one or two of those were due to rot, the rest were to the squirrels digging them out and the whole thing disappeared. Mostly the small things. My DH is very busy doctoring his veggie garden today, he found a nest of borer eggs, or slug eggs, I'm not sure which, in his peppers and yellow squash. I do not know if that is why I lost two hosta within the last week, with the leaves cut off at the base and the crown just ate up. It made me sick. We are both doing the ammonia 1:10 treatment to stop this quickly. We are hitting 100 this week, according to the thermometer under my potting umbrella, it was 101 yesterday in the shade. I cannot deal with all of that heat anymore. I don't want the hosta to deal with it either. We walk a fine line to keep the hosta thriving....See Morelilykate7a
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