What a beautiful story, Josh! Is it weird that I wanted to cry through every stage-especially the end?! I live in MN and knew of a massive decorative succulent arrangement outside of a restaurant down the block. This is the hardest time of year for plant lovers like me. It just takes One freeze for many plant species to be destroyed, and there are so many establishments that use tropical and warm climate plants as outdoor decoration, especially those with outdoor seating. It amazes me that people pay for established Hibiscus trees-just to allow them to be killed after the first freeze. My last employer had 3 decorative aluminum garbage cans lining the storefront, and their plant service would come every season with lawn bags and toss out fruit laden pepper plants, hibiscus and many other beauties what were still flourishing. The ladies employed for the job were wonderful, but they couldn't rescue every plant that had been paid for to become trash at the end of every season. I Am proud to say that there are 4 hibiscus trees still thriving at various coworker's homes due to my rescue efforts. When Fall starts to approach I find myself in literal heartbreak pain when I see particularly beautiful or exotic plants that I know are doomed in just a few weeks, but it's illegal to uproot the entire thing in the name of Mother Nature, so instead I will discreetly take a pinching home and continue its existence in that way instead. But back to this recent rescue; This barrel planter was about 3 ft tall by 5 ft across, and the variety of succulents growing were just gorgeous and bursting with life!! It was so incredible that I had convinced myself that it Must be on casters because it was located right at the door, and they Must be pulling it inside now that it was getting cold. Not so. The night before last (November 8) I was walking past at about 2 am and braced myself to look inside. Thankfully most of the plants looked to have been yanked out, and there were only 2 left. I couldn't identify one of them due to its state, but the other just so happened to be the mother of the gorgeous yellow succulent I pinched at the beginning of June. I realized after swooning over its crippled state that I could actually see the root ball. It all happened so fast-and it was so cold- about 20 degrees, but next thing I knew my hands were going numb as I was walking swiftly down the street grasping the remnants of a once massive mostly frozen plant! Long story winding down, I have followed your instructions and trimmed her back as much as she requires. What I have found interesting is that the one branch that has kept its petals in tact is a piece that was starting to shrivel toward the stalk. Do you know why that would be? This particular succulent smells like blanched green beans when trimmed! Anyway, I have her tucked safely under the head of my claw foot tub where it is consistently warm and dim. I'm waiting for the soil to dry from her root ball so that I can gently shake the dirt away and allow for her to fully dry out. I treated her like a frostbite victim and in the process saturated the root ball. I have several cuttings that I think may survive in hospice care as well in my terrarium. I'm hoping that my initial rescue mistakes will be fully forgiven, and after seeing your album of success I have great hope for her. Thank you very much for sharing with us, and thank you to everyone for reading my story!

nickjoseph and nippstress: The name of the rose is Spectra, and that is how it looked yesterday. In 2014 it emerged around July 15 after that brutal winter. It did not flower, and was a weakling in 2014. Now it has 12 basal breaks, and is back to normal. Spectra is a large flowered climber; in France it is considered a hybrid tea if memory serves me correctly. Usually we cannot grow large flowered climbers in the Midwest. I planted two of these elsewhere in town and they died within 2-years. Behind my office where this is grown I have a microclimate that is probably more like Zone 7, with a southern exposure. I have buildings on the West, my shorter building on the North, and a longer one on the East that block the wind. In other words this rose bed is in the inside of a U facing south. I planted a small bed of 5-roses about 15 years ago when I moved in and they grow amazingly well. I have had almost no disease issues in this bed. The Prince gets 4 feet wide, and 5-6 feet tall. Spectra when it comes up timely like it is this year usually gets 8-9 feet tall. About 8-years ago I put a cane in the ground and it grew into a rose bush (Polarstern). If you have any tips how to post pics, I'd appreciate it because it is hit or miss for me. I posted pics on this site more than a decade ago, and even 4-5 years ago on the fruit and orchard subsite, when this site had a different interface. Now, I cannot figure out how to reliably post pics within a post.

Fingers crossed for you! Glad your blood orange is coming back. Is that a cutting or grafted? Hopefully it's not root stock. I also killed a favorite tree this year- transplant shock. Mine was def dead though. It's gone to the citrus gods in the sky now. To be replaced next year!

did you start this from a seed.. if so .... there is no graft issue .... in colder zones.... its not uncommon that trees get frosted or froze.. and lose all there leaves ... and releaf .... it is more uncommon that the trunk died ... as i wouldnt have thought it could have gotten THAT cold ... regardless.... apparently there was no root damage ... and the tree is coming back with a vengeance .... since there are enough roots there to support that which died .... i would give it a few more weeks.. to see if that part is dead for sure. .. and if not.. you have to prune it out .... you might also want to reduce to one leader ... it you prefer it to look that way in the future ... but.. even if it releafs.. it just mightnot look great.. so i would probably.. without a pic ... probably end up removing the large bare part.. as close to the ground as i can.. without harming the new growth ... a good cheap tree saw might be worth the investment ... good for camping too ... ken https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cheap+folding+tree+saw&t=ffcm&ia=products