Things may look sad, but they should rebound next year. Nature is fairly resilient in that regard. I remember years ago, a late snowstorm did a number on the daffodils etc, but the next year they were fine.

If you harvest fruit from the cherry and plum trees, though, you might be disappointed this year.

Oh, yes, it will only spoil this years blooms. Even if they survive this freeze, the past several years we have gotten hard freezes in April.

I did lose a fig a few years ago by having it out of storage in mid-April, because it had been so warm, and not noticing the freeze warning in the forecast.

mxk3, I had a pair of Chinese apricot (not sure if the same as what you ordered) for several years - they finally started blooming (tended to be early, just like my manchurian cherry), even started a few fruits, but those never survived our swings in temperatures. I took them out last year.

I hope you have more success!

Some of my daffodils are already spent and some are just about to bloom. I have some iris blooming too!

This has been a crazy spring. We're supposed to get another hard freeze too. I've been holding off planting, and it's about to kill me. The weather has been so cooperative these last few days.

A frost won't hurt the daffodils or hyacinths. What counts as a 'hard' freeze?

Hard freeze is 28 degrees Fahrenheit or lower for at least a few hours. It's considered a "killing freeze".

Daffs will be fine; they can take temps deep into the 20s.

I said the same thing earlier, and got the same response. I know these temps won't kill daffodils, but it'll sure mess up the open blooms. Doesn't that happen to others? I wonder if it's my humid climate. Maybe the extra moisture messes with the petals?

Here in north east Ohio there is an old saying, "it always snows once on the daffodils" which is very true, it usually snows more like two, three, four, five times or more on the open flowers of the daffodils. It may flatten them to the ground but they have always gotten back up and have never looked like it has phased them at all. Hyacinths and tulips can handle low freezing temps and snow when in advanced growth from my experience also. Early flowering fruit trees and magnolias are getting their flowers frozen off in this weather though. It is a shame, last week I saw some beautiful Magnolia stellata and soulangeana coming into flower, this morning they are most likely all zapped by the cold and the flowers are ruined for the season. There is another saying that gardeners are eternal optimists, maybe next year they will make it through the early spring weather without a hard freeze.

Been lucky here so far as temps dip into the mid-30's at night but nothing below freezing. Our pear and plum trees have bloomed and they did have a few recent warmer days to bring out the pollinators so we should get a good crop this year.

I just walked down to the orchard and picked a bouquet of daffodils. It is so cold outside today, many blooms are sagging and on the ground, but others are just coming into bud. I haven't planted bulbs for the last two, maybe three years. I'd like to put in some more pink cupped daffs. I used to have a large variety of colors, some unusual, but have noticed they are not returning as well anymore.

Mount Hoods. a pure white, are so pretty. I planted some more of those down in the front yard a couple years ago. They do well and do not spread much if at all. One small row near the peonies has lasted many years.

I wonder why my photos don't appear more clear or sharp? Someone I think spoke of this here not too long ago. Is it my camera or my computer? Used to be not a problem.

Jeb, here is it "three snows after the forsythia blooms" -- and they have been in full bloom for close to a week. Also, it seems to me that it almost always snows on Easter - even if just a short flurry.

It did drop to 21F Wednesday night. I decided that the peach, cherry and apricot buds were still tight enough to not be bothered (hope so, anyway) but I did cover my favorite daffs with large boxes, and laid the potted fully-blooming plum down and covered it. All seem to have survived well, including the daffs and hyacinths that I didn't cover - they didn't even droop!

Schoolhouse, the daffs that I covered are a variety with large, ruffled, split pink cups - so pretty! I don't remember the name though.

It seems daffodils can go by different names depending upon the company catalog. Your pink sounds wonderful. I also like the split cups.

Well, this morning there is a coating of ice on the back porch and the steps. So much so that I decided to go out the front door, through the garage, and avoid the sidewalk at the bottom. Instead, walked on the grass. Daffodils are NOT happy. The ones I saw atop the retaining wall as I went to the cellar are on the ground, even the ones in bud. So I'm not sure how the one in the orchard have fared.