Thanks for the report. FWIW none of my firs were injured even in the slightest. Not even a tiny bit of browning or bleaching. Those are 2 firma 9-12', 1 pindrow 4', 1 ernestii 4', and seedling delavayis, alba, cephalonica, nordmanniana subsp. equitrojanis. Of course the seedlings, luckily, would have been mostly snow covered during the 3F freezes.

My 'Shalimar' had just a bit of needle drop and browning of some needles. That's to be expected I think. The original Arnold Arboretum article states that it was damaged at -6F in Boston in the 70s or 80s but recovered. It's probably not quite as hardy as the other hardier C. deodara...because it wasn't really selected for it. It was just a nice looking tree in the zn 9 Shalimar Gardens in Srinagar, India. 'Paktia' et al were deliberately picked out of a cold mountain valley further west.

This post was edited by davidrt28 on Mon, Apr 21, 14 at 16:51

Interestingly, it seems that although overall, the species Cedrus deodara is the least hardy of the true cedars, the hardiest selections (such as picea's 'Karl Fuchs' or even 'Shalimar') are actually hardier than even the hardiest Cedrus libani, which is *overall* the hardiest Cedrus species as a whole.

Confused yet? Haha.

Some of the deodaras around here look a bit yellowed/browned but I haven't seen major damage to speak of.

The fact that 'Karl Fuchs' survived intact in Ohio means it must be significantly hardier than the rest.

Cedrus deodora "Eisregen" came through looking as good as the day it was planted.

A 20 year old Cupressus glabra "Blue Ice" however is now all brown. Sad to see 25 feet of brown foliage.

The glabra "Picasso" at the Rowe arboretum suffered the same damage as my Blue Ice. So I would put that entire family in the "Great plant until a year like this" category.