Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: Winter burn recovery??, 0 by Weerobin

Weerobin wrote:
#1 is a columnar yew, Taxus cuspidata Columnaris.
#2 is another buxus, B sempervirens Graham Blandy
#3 is a huge Firmiana simplex, one of my favorite trees. Bold textured leaves.
As far as I can tell, completely dead.
#4 is one of my many crepe myrtles, maybe 15ft tall?
Just showing some sprouts from the roots.
When I started gardening many years ago, we treated them as die-back shrubs.
I'd cut them to the ground every spring.
But with global warming, I was able to enjoy their beautiful bark, too.
I haven't cut anything down yet, hoping to see some growth on the branches,
but I'm increasingly losing hope.
#5 is Ilex Rock Garden. I have several and all severely injured.
This one is showing the best new growth. I suspect they'll recover OK.
But they'll look unsightly for a while.
I lost several other oddities euscaphis, euptelea, evodia, emmenopterys ...
They are all rare enough that their true hardiness wasn't known.
Well, I think we have a better idea now. All 10ft or taller, so were pretty established trees.
Sigh... the trials and tribulations of a zone pusher...