No point in adding insult to injury by cutting them off. Screen out rabbits, keep up with mulching, watering etc. to encourage recovery.

The Sissoo is a semi-deciduous tree so as long as it has been in the ground for at least a year, it should be fine. The Ficus is a different story. I have seen one or two very old, very large Ficus in Sun City that are beginning to show signs of new growth just underneath the frost damaged branches, but 99% of the Ficus I see everyday are still completely brown and nasty looking. I took the easy way out. I cut my old Ficus down replaced it with a 24" box Shamel Ash. The Shamel looks great, and itÂs already bigger than the 2 year old 24" box Ficus it replaced. Those of you not in love with your Ficus might want to consider replacing them now while you have a good excuse. ItÂs true that Ficus can, under normal Arizona winters, battle back from some slight frost damage, but I have never seen anything close to the extent of the damage they received this year. It think itÂs fair to assume that many of these trees, particularly the ones that were unhealthy to begin with, may not make it back from this severely cold winter weather. But think about it, if your Ficus do somehow, slowly recover whatÂs to say we donÂt get another hard frost again in 5 or 10 years and then theyÂre back to looking like nasty garbage. IÂm using this cold winter as an excuse to reevaluate ymy long-term tree plans. Dave

Tina, I'm moving to Gainesville. Calm down, not leaving FL. Amber, I lived in Ruskin then Bradenton when I first moved to FL. I know all too well that it gets cold here. Even way down here in 9b, it's been a cold winter. I've lived in this house for 14 years, and only once in the first 12 did my jatrophas freeze. Last year they froze down to the ground, and luckily came back. This year, they have lost all their leaves, and will probably lose a good bit of the tops of their limbs. I'm glad I won't be here to have to clean up all the winter dead stuff this year!

Roses usually have 3 eyebuds so if one set of leaflets die new leaflets takes its place. Hummm... Of course if cane is damaged that needs cut off for sure... I just let nature take its course and do not cut out damaged leaflets but see what others say because maybe cutting out wilted or dead leaves is better? I have roses 3.5ft high & wide cold weather killed/wilted a lot of leaves ...Finally got to prune yesterday I pruned them down to 18 inches (mostly because these certain ones perform best when I do that) and I still had some wilted/dead leaves on the bush so I just left the wilted leaflets on the bush and sooner or later new leaves will grow in there place... :-)