the carnage

my biggest brug and its makeshift shelter

sweet potato

canna that was blooming yesterday

The tubers of the sweet potato should be okay?

brug

yeah i'll dig them up and put them somewhere else next year or give them away
confederate rose will finally lose its leaves. the small kumquat in the background behind the honeysuckle is fine... no harm at all

yellow mandevilla. small new elephant ears in the bottom left corner

banana

a little damage to poinsettia

over all this fared well. this is the only other damage

evolvulus glomeratus is done for now. the lily if the nile should stay green.... fingers crossed

schefflera arboricola... this is all the damage... only on newest leaves grown in the last week

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ficus benjamina(not pictured) did not have any damage

strelitzia nicolai minor burns

clerodendrum ugandense

coral bean losing is leaves

plumbago did well... so far

strelitzia reginae no damage

to end on a more positive note...
bromeliad blooming

Diehard, you may need some grief counseling.

lol... some was expected, but i was not happy when i came home on tuesday. thepoinsettia and plumeria and bromeliad are keeping me going, as well as my new greenhouse that is coming in a few weeks!!!!

De-nile. We do get frost and you will have tropicals drop dead on you. Let's repeat that over and over. The trick is to find the ones that come back year after year. My EE's just wilt and drop ever year. When? Who knows but it will happen. They come back the next year just fine. In fact they multiply. I have others that die and won't be coming back, LOL. You can't fight mother nature. You can fool around on the edges though.

yep.... i do have one good microclimate though.... i'm gonna try to move more things there. seems that the giant BOP and the poinsettia are the one that i will have to work to protect. didn't you put a s. reginae in the ground? or is that another person? if you did, how'd it do?

Yes it's in the ground and doing fine. Doesn't look burnt or anything.

same with my small one... i guess those are just easier to protect

Ewwwww! I know exactly how you feel! My garden was in that state last month after the first freeze .. then it got so warm everything was putting on new growth! Finally had another hard freeze and everything was finally killed off.

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it's sad isn't it?