Beginning to Fix the Freeze Damage

I'm scared to replant anything because there might be another freeze. The coleus and bougainvillea are looking dreadful. Actually, the Coleus completely disintegrated. The boug will come back, but I think I'm changing it out for something else....it's just too temperamental.

The ground orchids did what they always do. I pulled out half of them to make room for new growth.


The fronds of the Christmas palms near the house are looking pretty bad. The red Mamey Crotons beneath them are gonners. Perhaps if I trimmed them back, they could be saved, but I doubt it...and it would take two years. Gonna replace the crotons.

The copperleaf croton under this palm did great. The mamey croton (shown here next to the bromiliad is a complete gonner.

The backyard is pretty bad too. The GOOD news is that now I replant some things that I've wanted to switch up anyway. I can get the soil in the garden repaired and ready to go for the spring crop.