It's best to wait until later to determine what really got zapped and what may be just damaged. Plants in containers are at greater risk for cold damage/death due to the exposure of the soil mass/roots to cold air temperatures around them - they don't have the insulation factor of the ground soil to protect them. So don't be surprised if these plants don't make it. Those hebe cultivars are considered marginal here in zone 8 at best, but I'd not necessarily write them off entirely. While the top growth may be unrecoverable, these sometimes offer much greater root hardiness than we expect, especially on well established plants. Wait to see if any new shoots emerge very low on the plants in spring before pullling and tossing. Then prune back hard. The clematis should be fine. Deciduous clematis look really nasty now but are quite hardy - they all need a good pruning in spring anyway. Evergreen clematis, like armandii, can suffer from damaged foliage in tough winters, but typically pull through fine. Mine looks amazingly good for what we experienced - I noticed a lot of very healthy, plump buds on it yesterday.

Hi Eileen, please provide detail for the month and year your bulb bloomed and also the month and year you cut it back. I have added years here to help with the timeline. What is typical is that a bulb may bloom in November or December 2017 and after the bloom fades, the stalk is cut back. Say... January 2018. The bulb should be allowed to grow all through the spring and summer 2018, and in September you stop watering it. The leaves turn yellow and die back and at that point, you cut the leaves back and put the pot somewhere cool and darker. Then about 8 weeks later you bring it up and give it water... keeping it fairly dry until new growth appears. You could ten get blooms in December 2018 or January 2019. It confuses me that you would still have a stalk with moistute after nearly a year.

That's pretty far gone... I would ask for replacement sod now while it's in season. Waiting a few months to redo it will only miss the season & buy you another year of brown grass. If they refuse to replace it, your HOA may be able to pressure them or go over the builder's head, assuming he doesn't own the company.

I have seen it done with the use of magnets. That becomes more of a custom job but it works. Does not prevent anyone from opening and closing, it just keeps it closed without the wind blowing it back open. Flannel Guy DIY - Youtube