Will Cold Weather Kill My New Perennials?

I am so concerned about losing all of the new (very young and small) perennials that I bought this past summer. I remember only too well that we had a cold spell last year and sure enough I lost some things that had just been planted. Now this last summer I bought a truckload of flowers to get my gardens filled in. I worked sooooooooooooooo hard digging, amending and planting. In fact normally by mid August I'm getting pretty tired of the flowers on their way out looking badly and I have a tendency to be burned out by then. But not this last year. I was still out working clear up to the end of October when I ended up in the hospital which made short work of anything I was going to finish. Click here to see where I showed part II of 60 flowers still blooming on October 12th. Must of been all of the new compost I bought working.

Today I decided to show some longshots of my flower beds. Something you haven't seen me doing much of before. Mainly because the beds had a few flowers planted here and a few flowers planted there but now I just want solid flowers, no soil showing. I have a ways to go because like I said I bought lots of flowers this last summer and had to buy the small size to be able to get that many. But it should look great after they get bigger and fill in.

I'm just going to show one side and the front of the house because that's the areas I was working so hard on before being rudely interrupted with my lung infection. I suppose it was getting a little to cold for me to be out digging and sweating that time of year but O'well ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

Looking a little less than halfway down one side of the house at the end are Sweet William, Hardy Geranium, Malva Zebrina and the big Malva I got this year. Yarrow, Blue Huckleberry, Yucca, Red Valerian, Lambs Ears, Verbena Bonariensis, Euphorbia Blackbird Spurge, Lychnis Rose Campion, Barberry Rosy Glow and more I can't think of. Be sure and click on any picture you would like to see enlarged.
I think a couple of the new ones in here are Platycodon Astra White Balloon Flower and one of the 3 new Asters I got is around the corner. The Asters were Hazy, Dragon and Marie III.
Red Valerian, Lamb's Ears, Clematis that show the best. I think it would just be easier to list everything I bought new and planted here (that I haven't said yet) than try to figure out what is where in these pictures. After all I just did it and am not that familiar with what I put where yet. So on this side of the house I added: Leucanthemum Superbum Schneehurken Shasta Daisy, Silene Clifford Moor, Perovskia Atriplicifolia Russian Sage, Isotoma Blue Star Creeper, Pratia County Park, Ceratostigma Plumbaginoides, Phlox Scarlet Flame, Guara Passionate Blush, Guara Snow Fountain, Penstemon Margarita BOP, Penstemon Blue Buckle, Penstemon Husker Red Strain, Nepta Blue Moon Catmint, Sedum Frosty Morn, Echinacea Magnus, Echinacea Pink Poodle, Echinacea Ruby Star, Echinacea Baby Swan White, Echinacea Prairie Splendor, Delphinium, Dahlia Hybrid, Platycodon Astra Blue Balloon Flower, and another Lungwort Mrs. Moon.
The pinks were sprawled all over the place in front of the Clematis looking bare and horrible so one of the first things I did here was to dig them all up and put them along the edge. They look much nicer now. I still have another bunch at the other end I'm going to do the same way.

Here are some more Malvas, Liatris, Autumn Joy, the Dahlia Hybrid, Penstemon, Lunaria and Coreopsis.

One of Bob's beautiful Peonies, the tall White Campanula I got from Doris along with my new Campanula Cherry Bells another tall one.
At the closest end you can see just a bit of the (out of control) Germander circling around the house until Bob literally butchered it last summer. One of my 5 new Echinaceas, the other patch of Pinks, and Aster, Sedum Frosty Morn, some Guara's and more.

In the old ready to fall apart but I can't part with wooden ringer washer are wild Bleeding Hearts, Cyclamen, violas, Brunnera, many Heuchera's that I love sooooo much. A couple of Heathers because 20 years ago this use to be what we thought was the sunny area. It was the sunniest (until we logged the back a couple of times). But they are still alive and bloom every year even if they are in my way but too big to move. Down at the end on the corner are a couple of different Columbines, a couple of different colored Spiderworts, my new tiny little Heuchera Canyon Duet (so cute) and next to it my new tiny little Hosta Blue Mouse (also so cute). So I'm into little and cute!!! There are Bleeding Hearts again farther down but not the wild ones. A bunch of Hostas in pots at the moment that Doris gave me and I didn't get planted.

Lungwort, big white Calla Lilies, a Maidenhair fern which was the last thing I got from my Father before he passed away. And it's not a flower but I love my double decker bird bath made from a vintage enamelware roasting pan.

Well I guess that pretty well covers it and I think you can see why I'm so worried about losing all of these flowers in this freezing weather were having. If you'd like to see a post I did when I got most of them and they're close ups blooming click here.