Anyone's Ginkgo still sleeping?

[CapeCodBonsai]

The buds have been swelling on mine since the beginning of April and they finally started opening up this week.

 

[Carol 83]

Mine are awake. The only things still sleeping in my garden are the hornbeams and crape myrtle (and I think at least on of the Myrtle’s is dead).

Crapes are always the last to wake up here, I think they like to scare us.

 

[shohin_branches]

This past winter was brutal…. My local bonsai friends and I lost so many trees….. I’m trying not to think about it.

I lost one really nice tree, plus a few small rooted cuttings, but the rest just faked me out this spring. I was so close to composting one, and then the next day there was a bud.
My ginkgo seedling hasn't leafed out yet

 

[penumbra]

It is interesting to note the wide variance of leafing out on ginkgos as posted here. I A have over 200 though at least half of these are one year old. One is about 40 years old and several in between. Nearly all of mine leafed out with my Japanese maples, and were thus damaged by late freeze, except the seedlings which are fine for the most part. Most of the damaged ones are just started to form new buds now but several of my dwarfs look dead and have not formed new buds. It is interesting that one I bought at the Winter Silhouette Show last December is only leafing out now.

 

[shohin_branches]

It is interesting to note the wide variance of leafing out on ginkgos as posted here. I A have over 200 though at least half of these are one year old. One is about 40 years old and several in between. Nearly all of mine leafed out with my Japanese maples, and were thus damaged by late freeze, except the seedlings which are fine for the most part. Most of the damaged ones are just started to form new buds now but several of my dwarfs look dead and have not formed new buds. It is interesting that one I bought at the Winter Silhouette Show last December is only leafing out now.

Did you have the ones that were damaged shipped from a grower in a warmer location?

 

[penumbra]

Did you have the ones that were damaged shipped from a grower in a warmer location?

Yes, the ones I am worried about and find cause for concern about their survival. This is my dwarf ginkgos from California. I have about 8 or 10 of these and the six I got from CA last summer are bad but so is the larger one from NC. Who knows, they may all survive but die back. I had some Stewartia go from 8 to 10 inches down to about 2 to 4 inches and a couple died.

 

[roberthu]

I don't have Gingko. But two of my tridents are super slow this spring. The others all flowered and in full leaf. One just started to push buds and the other is still barely waking up. I can see one or two buds showing green right now...
My guess is they did not accumulate enough energy last fall and struggled during the winter.

 

[gooeytek]

It's a mess, but leaves are out.

 

[shohin_branches]

Yes, the ones I am worried about and find cause for concern about their survival. This is my dwarf ginkgos from California. I have about 8 or 10 of these and the six I got from CA last summer are bad but so is the larger one from NC. Who knows, they may all survive but die back. I had some Stewartia go from 8 to 10 inches down to about 2 to 4 inches and a couple died.

I got a Chinese elm from Florida one year and even though it spent most of the growing season starting early spring in Wisconsin its first winter was a bit of a shock and the darn thing took until July to leaf out.
So dramatic!
I gave it a little extra protection the next few years and it was much more resilient by the time I sold it to a club member.