Artemesia Oriental Limelight and more winter kill

Greetings from a slowly warming up New Hampshire!

Some of you may recall our discussions on this last year. Well, I can now confidently state, that it does overwinter and it spreads! I am now in the process of replanting in various parts of the garden in deep pots sunk into the ground. Should clump up nicely now!

I am finding some odd balls that didn't overwinter - my Coreopsis Limerock Ruby and C. Sweet Dreams appear to be gone. I'll leave their spots alone for a while in case they are late returning. A few daylilies didn't make it - one heaved thanks to the rodent population in the garden and a few seem to have rotted away. Didn't spend top dollar on any of them, so no harm done.

I also lost my Euphorbia myrsinites (donkey tail spurge) - it got covered with blowing leaves and rotted. And I gave all my seedlings away last year!

What still blows me away is the amount of winter kill on my red leafed rose; I lost about half the canes. This is the first year that it has seen this much snow cover and I left the hips on for the birds. All thoughts welcome on the causes of the dead canes. BUT, I found 4 seedlings from it this spring; they are headed to Monica.

Happy Gardening

Cheryl
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Cheryl Isaak
Londonderry, NH
AHS Region 4, USDA Zone 4B/5A
growing, stitching and reading in NH

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