things that are growing and things that are not and a drawing in progress

I made lists:

Things that are completely brown or mushy that I cut to the ground (or will): 18 items

Things that are completely brown that I'm waiting to see if and where they come out before I prune them back: 7 items

Things that are completely brown not in either of the lists above: 7 items

Things I'm already seeing new growth on: toad lilies, roses, pansies and violas (these took a big hit but are already blooming again), mock dogwood, spirea, society garlic, woodland pinks, easter lilies (young bulbs just now emerging), ground orchids, red crinum lilies, plumbago (little nubs of green), native alstroemeria, firespike (little nubs of green) , leatherleaf fern.

I won't know for a month at least about the angel trumpets, flowering senna, rangoon creeper, yellow bells, bougainvillea, night blooming jasmine, star of india gardenia, banana trees, mexican bird of paradise, fig tree, hummingbird bush. I'm pretty sure the rosemary, penta, batface cuphea, and phillipine lilies are completely dead. I suspect the morning glory bush, yesterday/today/tomorrow, and bulbine is too.

I don't think the ponytail palm came through as unaffected as I first thought. I've given it a haircut, got about 1/4, so it doesn't look quite so much like Cousin It which it did before the freeze, the long trailing leaves completely covering the necks and the bulb which is at least about 4' in diameter if not bigger. 

The necks still felt firm but the growing ends all froze and when I looked at it yesterday and squeezed a couple they are feeling softer and liquid oozed out. Bummer, not a good sign. I guess it froze down to the bulb and I'll lose all the necks...again. This is at least the third time this has happened, maybe the fourth, which is why it looked like Cousin It. This ponytail palm was a wedding gift when Marc and I got married so we've had it going on 45 years. It went from small pot to ever larger ones and eventually into a preformed round water lily pond and then finally into the ground on the south side of the concrete bunker over at the shop property. It was at least 10' tall with three or four necks and ponytails of foliage when it froze down the first time when it was still in the water lily pond in front of our old shop in Houston and now I guess it's done it again. Just no way to protect it when I gets as cold as it did but I'm sure it will come back again.

Other than cutting away dead foliage and spending Thursday morning at SHARE, the only other thing I've done is unload the debris from the truck and onto the burn pile and then fill it up again with heavy trash and drive it down to Rocky's house and load it onto his big trailer since he's making a trip to the transfer station tomorrow. Some people around here throw all that stuff on their burn pile and get rid of it that way but I only burn organic material...no plastic, rubber, metal, etc.

Well, one more thing. I've been working on my drawing, didn't get time to work on it today  so here's a pic in progress.