My peonies are fine. Butterfly bush also damaged almost to the ground. Camellias took their worst hit in 15+ years, but will regrow from older wood. None of their flower buds opened however. Crape myrtle killed to the ground, resprouting. Knockout roses, which had seemed bulletproof, have a LOT of damage. Lots of dead parts, but the plants will survive. Southern magnolia (evergreen) lost a few leaves but is fine. It normally loses a few every year. Aucuba looks tattered but full of new growth. It was a strange winter for sure. Mild, almost too mild into January, then the coldest temps in 30 years around Valentine's Day. Then mild, followed by April snow!

Both my herbaceous and tree peonies are very sparse and lacking bloom. My dwarf crepe myrtle which is supposed to be OK in my zone bit the dust. My knockouts were also knocked out! The roses I heavily protected with compost and salt marsh hay fared quite well. I have a taller native tree-like azalea that is always iffy for bloom, but with the mild winter I was hoping for a little. The squirrels took care of denuding four of my large viburnums of all the buds.

It was such a crazy spring with the hot-cold..........

I'm mourning too. Both my hydrangeas will not bloom this year, though the plants survived to (I hope!) flower another year..... One butterfly bush is leafing out low so will survive, but the other smaller one seems completely dead. I still water it in hope though.... Other plants I've nurtured carefully through droughts and snow for two years are struggling. Unfortunately the horrible black dog stranglevine weeds are completely undaunted....

This is he first time in 13 years that my hydrangeas did not bloom or leaf out. We've had substantial rain and so I must finally accept that it's time to cut them way back. And yes, barrett001, my weeds are looking marvelous this year!

I all but lost an evergreen azalea that had been growing happily for 21 years. Most of the leaves turned brown and it wasn't sending out new ones. So I cut it back to the ground and now it's sending up a lot of new growth. It may not bloom again for a few years, but it looks like all is not lost.

Photos of the small hydrangea blooms that I never thought would happen this summer....

barrett001, you can cut off the dead sticks now since they really are dead. I usually do that by mid-June since if a stem hasn't leafed out by then, it won't, and removal makes them look tidier. If you are interested, there are some threads on winter protecting hydrangeas on the Hydrangea forum. Or if they are usually fine in your area, but late spring frosts can nail them, have a few old blankets or large cardboard boxes set aside to throw over them when late frosts are predicted. I love the blue color in the second photo!