It's probably too early, but I doubt that they are still alive.....especially in a container. You can try searching and scratching for living tissue, but you cannot compare lantana with a woody shrub.

Lantana are tender perennials, generally used as annuals and treated accordingly.

Don't give up on them yet! I am in your same zone and lantanas are the last thing to come out, always when you think they are done for! They are very late arrivers, not for weeks will they show their face. The yellow is the hardiest and will usually return here. The only X-factor that you have is that they were in pots, but there is still a chance for them. Just keep caring for them, they might surprise you!

Thanks Rhizo about the scratch test. Good to know!

And thanks Funnthsun! I think your area is most similar to mine...judging from another N Carolinian that has helped me out in the past. Lookin at your name -- are you near the beach, too? :)

After I posted that, I did remember having the same kind in hanging baskets that came back one year so maybe there IS hope afterall!! I will definitely think positive and keep them babies watered and fed.

No, I'm in central nc, but they do well here! Good luck :-)

Live Lantana branches are still naked here, not time yet...

Think that's where my friend was at, "fun". Even better to know, "purple"....considering you're further south. Fingers crossed, then !!

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This post was edited by brit5467 on Mon, Mar 25, 13 at 13:21

I left both my lantana and fuschia in their planters to overwinter outside. Lantanas were very dead. Inspected them well. The non hardy annual trailing fuschia have little green sprouts all over them. I am very surprised because they were frozen solid in their baskets for several weeks. Who would have thought. The PNW must be a different sort of 8b.