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!

I would take the opportunity to prune out the damaged areas and shape to your preferences. Particularly since as you stated it is historically a fast grower.

Sometimes they just need trimming back to keep them in bounds. At our last house I had a blue one that crept out for several feet to where you couldn't even walk around it from the back yard to the side yard. I would cut it back, dig out the new plants and give those to neighbors. It seemed like I would have to do this every 3 to 5 years else the wife would get annoyed. It often would be close to the border line. At my current house I rarely trim any hydrangea except this year I took hedgers to my oldest ones (Lady in Red and a cutting from the blue hydrangea above). Cut them to about half the size and the new growth looks good thus far. The blooms were not as plentiful as they had been in previous years and the spread was getting to be too much.

Leave it be and when it is time to go outside, root prune and pot up in fresh potting mix. I'd even move it up one pot size. Once you see new growth forming, fertilize heavily. I have a short season and have to really push my brugmansia to get them to bloom before frost. I fertilize with 24-8-16 liquid fertilizer every other day. Brugs are VERY heavy feeders. It will fill out nicely with fresh soil and fertilizer.