On 3/8/2018 12:03 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Thu 08 Mar 2018 09:32:22a, jmcquown told us...
>
>> I felt sorry for my neighbor when the unusual cold snap hit. He
>> went out of town and left the automated sprinkler system on. All
>> of the plants in his front yard (I don't know what they are, some
>> sort of ferns) wound up coated in sheets of ice. They look to be
>> beyond redemption. Too bad, because he just put them in last
>> year.
>>
>> Jill
>>
>
> That's sad! However, many ferns will grow back quickly if well
> rooted. Hopefully that will happen.
>
I don't think his plants had time to become well rooted. Then again, I
have three small pink azaleas that looked completely dead for about a
year. Now the greenery is coming back and one of them even has a tiny
bloom on it. You never know.

Jill