I'm new to the gardening game and so this question may seem a little naive.

My girlfriend brought home a bunch of coleus from the local greenhouse along with some impatiens, a type of dracena and some other plants that I forget the name of. The idea is to plant these in pots outdoors when it gets nice. Since it is obviously too cold to that just yet, we put them on our enclosed deck. It's pretty much like a greenhouse, so we didn't think twice about them since the weather was warm.

Well, the temperature dropped more than we were prepared for and the next day the coleus weren't looking so good. Some had curled leaf edges and the purple ones have spots on the leaves that are a different sheen than the rest of the leaf. All the other plants seemed fine.

Obviously they got way too cold for such a tender plant and since they just came from a real (heated) greenhouse, we probably should have put them inside right away (where they are now). I'm guessing by looking at what the temp was that night (Tuesday night) that it was probably somewhere in the high 30s to low 40s on the deck.

The coleus don't look much better or worse as of yet, but what can we expect to happen to them?

Are they dying a slow death right now?

Or will they bounce back?

She's really PO'd right now and is taking it out on me, so I would like to tell her they'll be fine....please tell me they'll be fine.