Rhizo, sounds like yours is a good brain to pick! Once this wet weather moves through I'll take a picture and email it to you (it'll say sunshinesouth2004 in your inbox). I have a lovely book about container gardening, but I like to get "local" advice just the same. The pots are plastic (not as pretty as some materials but also not as expensive and not as heavy!). I punched out the drain holes, laid in a piece of window screen, a layer of rocks on top of that and then good potting soil, so they drain well. Right now pansies are keeping them occupied until I make a decision for the warmer months. I'm not committed to evergreens, necessarily. In fact I'm thinking hibiscus might be nice, with maybe something smaller or 'trailing" around the periphery. Thank you for your reply. Doesn't it seem like spring will never get here this year? Looks like another wet cold weekend.

The leaves that collapsed will not recover in my experience. Just cut them off. I feel the plant will recuperate if it was too much rain for it. I had a yucca die from too much water, but it came back from the roots, which on yuccas are thick and deep if it has some age on it. If your yucca is newly planted you might even dig it up and incorporate a couple of bags of decomposed granite into the soil to make a mound, and then replant it on the mound. That keeps it high and dry and not subject to succumbing to too much rain. It's hard to say what kind it is. There are so many different kinds. Wishing you the best. Let us know how it does.

There are an enormous number of Carex species, some with narrow leaves and some with leaves up to an inch wide or a bit more. Check out Carex platyphylla which is native or Carex siderosticha, not necessarily as IDs but to see that not all have narrow leaves. To get a more specific ID usually requires a magnifier, a specialized key for Carex, and "flowers" which in Carex tend to be small and green or brown, not too ornamental.

I'm with gardengal. The watering method I explained won't work without drainage, so I'd get the plant into something with a drainage hole ASAP, even if it means keeping it in a sub-par soil. The best soil would be a 5:1:1 mix (5 parts composted bark fines (between dust and 3/8"), 1 part peat, and 1 part perlite. If you can't find good bark fines, the next best solution is to pick up a bag of fairly chunky cactus mix and use 50% of the mix to 50% perlite (preferably the coarse kind without much dust. You need to get all the old soil out of the roots if this is going to work. The easiest way usually to start when the soil is fairly dry, shake off whatever your can, and dunk the roots in a pail or other large container of water, swish it around, and use your fingers, a chopstick, or whatever you have on hand to untangle the roots enough that the soil comes out, kneading it a little as needed. Cut any rotten roots back to healthy tissue, do your best to preserve any fine roots, and use a spray bottle to keep them from drying out while you're working. My guess is that you won't find a whole lot of fine roots, in which case most of the soil will fall out on its own. If you find a bunch of thick woody roots circling the pot that don't have fine roots attached to them you can cut them off with sterilized scissors or shears, but at this point that's less important than getting the plant in a good soil so it can recover. When you replant, fill the pot about 2/3 full (depending on the size of the root mass), spread the roots out on the mix, then add more mix a bit at a time, using your chopstick or whatever works to fill all voids in the roots with the new mix. I find it helps to whack the side and bottom of the pot every little while to help things settle in place. Stick the roots in a bucket of water or cover them with damp soil if you need to stop the process at any point.. When you're all done water well, making sure to cover the whole surface of the mix. Put the plant somewhere it will get indirect light and don't fertilize until you see new growth, at which point you can move it in front of a window they gets direct sun. The leaves should stop yellowing almost immediately, but it may be a while before you see a lot of improvement because the compromised root system needs to regrow before it can support new vegetation. Do post pictures of your progress, and don't hesitate to ask for help if you get stuck. Good luck--I'm looking forward to hearing how it goes and how your little green friend does!