Re: frost damage

Dear Charles,
 
You are so right, some plants take an extraordinarily long time to recover from a freeze.  I am so glad you are having such good results with your plants.  I didn' t think my Chamelaucium uncinatum, wax flower, had suffered any frost damage, then a few weeks after our three days of 15 F temps this past winter, all the leaves suddenly turned brown and crispy.  The dead leaves held and it didn't put out any growth for several months.  I kept hoping since I had planted it in my front yard next to the house (thinking this spot would be good in case of a freeze).  I didn't know what I would get to replace it.  I thought it was dead for sure, but I left it for quite some time (DH kept saying it was dead and to take it out)  About June it started to slowly push out little green leaves from the branches.  I didn't remove any of the dead leaves or any branches till this past week when just a couple of branches were left without any new growth, so I pruned those back.  Now it is almost as full as it was before.
 
The same was true for my variegated Meyer lemon, but it put on new leaves in May.  I also have a couple of lantana that didn't resprout from the ground till June.
 
Even my two Hawaiian ginger plants came back from the ground - no blooms but they are putting out lots of new shoots.
 
And thanks to Bill for letting me know my Alyogyne huegelii, blue hibiscus, would resprout from the roots.  And it did - it took a while but now it is about half the size it was before it froze to the ground.  This one I did prune back after I saw a few leaves coming from the base.
 
My small bougainvillea did not come back.
 
Linda Starr
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