It was bad. The pic can’t tell. Every branch went straight up toward the middle. That was the “before pic”. The after pic was just a few stick.
Speaking about February freeze. I was waiting for Forsythias to start flowering to prune my roses. I discovered today they are not going to flower this year with exception of 2-3 occasional flowers - looks like they froze out as well. And roses - I had to cut them to the almost ground level… Crazy weather. Never saw Forsythias to fail blooming.
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Galina,
Had you not mention Forsythia, I would not have paid attention. The whole bush in the back yard has one flower! The rest are green leaves. Now we know Forsythia flowers are not that cold hardy as we thought.
Among my stone fruit, peaches, nectarines, apricots and Japanese plums had their flowers were killed by subzero temp. European plums and cherries (both sweet and bush cherries) have survived well.
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Yes, Emeruade has non showy flowers!
With the extra space in your yard after removing the old peach tree(s), it’s time to put a couple of these potted trees in the ground 
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Glad to hear. Hope your Eneraude geaft will take.
I impulsively bought a Contender whivh has a bad form.
Now I think I will put Emeraude/Zepzyr/Artic Glo in ground and keep Contender in pot (for now).
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I think it is not only about hardiness… It is about early wake up with crazy warm February weather before the cold snap.
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I agree. It could be that these trees may not have been fully dormant yet so they were more vulnerable when subzero temperature hit.
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So pretty!
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Thank you.
What’s why I told @clarkinks that, for fruit trees, peaches and nectarines get my vote for the most beautiful fruit flowers.
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Yes!
@SMC_zone6
Could you please post pics of your peach blossoms tomorrow?
I would like to find out what varieties have produced for you this year. Mine were zero. I had about 10 varieties before I removed the trees.
I am not Steven, but I suffered similar damage to you. I had about two dozen trees that I expected fruit from. All my nectarine trees bloom buds were wiped out except Honey Kist, Honey Blaze and Sep Honey, each of these three has between 10-20 open blossoms, that look healthy enough to become fruits. Among Japanese plums/pluots, Flavor Grenade seems to have a few dozen flowers vs 4 on two Flavor King trees, and non on Dapple Dandy, Weeping Santa Rosa, Dapple Jack and CHP. My cots are mostly second leaf, and among the dozen varieties that I have, Blenheim and Moorpark each has a handful of blossoms.
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Ahmad,
My Mirabelle Parfume de September. Flowers often in clusters.
Coe’s does not set in large clusters like mirabelle.
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You will not have to spray too much this year. So will I.
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For the record, my thermometer read 91 F around 2:30- 3 pm, today, 4/14/23. My neighbor’s thermometer read 92F.
Whatever it was, it was very hot.
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My arctic glo puts on a fantastic show but so far I have yet to get a fruit to ripen. A mostly healthy tree in my area. Some bacterial canker but not enough to be concerned.
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Wow! Must be the location is right🤭
Combo. Curcs take their share. What’s left usually splits on me. I’m still trying to figure out what I can do to get them across the finish line. I just grafted in redhaven and somerset peach. Great show, good health, …poor follow through on that one but I’m not sure that it is the trees fault.