Everything seems buried! I dont have experience with plants covered in snow for durations like that, because for some reason even when its cold here we still get a lot of snow to melt (maybe the ground is still warm). But anyway, I think your yuccas will be fine. You camellia isnt looking that great right now, but I have noticed with my spring blooming camellia the leaves kind of look brown on cold mornings (mid teens) and they pop right back in the afternoon, so maybe the same type of thing is going on with yours. With this warm up comming this week, most of the snow really should melt so then you will get a chance to see what damage has been done.
I think we are about a week or 2 away from mid winter, and late winter isnt usually that bad, some spirng bulbs might peak up, some trees are getting ready to bloom, and to me thats the start of spring. The trees buds are already looking a little bit bigger to me, but I think Im just looking forward to spring!

Good Luck

I'm also looking forward to spring and I'm optimistic that it's right around the corner. Our 15 day forecast shows all highs in the 40's which is above normal. After that it's all downhill. Here my magic milestones are Valentine's Day, (or this year I call it Daytona 500 Day) which is usually the end of the bitter cold, and St. Patrick's Day which is generally the end of any heavy snow. All in all it hasn't been that bad of a winter up here.

It really hasnt been an awful winter along the north east and mid atlantic as far as low temps go. (The west coast has it better than everyone else without a doubt). The most disappointing thing was the prolonged cold, and the fact that southern areas (especially florida) got really really slammed. The midwest had it pretty tough too, but at least there wasnt really much in the way of record cold like there was in florida.

But only 8 more weeks till the clocks go forward, and from there its only going to get better. I think there is 17 more weeks until the first day of summer, which is a pretty long way off, but its warm usually a month or 2 before that.

Good luck!

The best way to kill Yuccas is to leave snow in their crowns and let them have soggy feet.
It will be interesting to see how they fair,I know if they were Aloifolia they would almost certainly have rotted crowns with bud pull.
Cactus have their best shot if kept dry Oct 1 on.
Post some pics when the snow melts,the short duration and warmer temps may save them.
Best of luck!

Hi
I uncovered everything yesterday and moved all my orchids back outside except for those that couldn't be moved. Of most concern is a "hedge" consisting of 5 species of Vanda orchids . Used a heat producing frost cloth. So far it doesn't seem to have worked any better than plain old frost cloth lol. Had 29 for well over 4 hours and 6 days below 32 and a new daytime record barely making 42 and then for about 2 hours.
The understory palms were moved into the fish room which was kept at 65. Should havce no problem there.
Looks like most of the fish were killed off in the marsh garden and the water garden could not stay above 45 in spite of bubble wrap and being heated.
Though I've experienced colder weather even snow on one occasion, this has got to be the longest duration.
Can't wait for Feb. That's when I usually have the coldest weather lol. Good luck to everybody!!
gary

Here's some good news. Snow layers actually helps insulate the "protected" plants as if under a blanket. Your needle palm is fine, letting other palms go low so often could be a problem. I would use Christmas lights.

Not to rain on any parade but, if jim says yuccas do not like snowy crowns and soggy feet, I'd at least brush them off the to save them and then cover them with a tarp until temps recover in April. I did that last year mid-winter and saved my fig tree.

TZ. I look at winter from a palms point of view lol. The coldest months temperature-wise are Dec, Jan, Feb: Today marks the halfway point of winter 1/15 - we are making it thru. June July and August are our warmest months and July 15 is the true half way mark temperature-wise.

Greg
The good thing about the second half is early morning sun and stronger sun.
Obviously if we have an Arctic outbreak mid February that puts damper on the party but the sun angle next month(third week of Feb)makes quick work of snow,even in cold air temps.

Bring on February,the last winter month!

I'm feeling the spring fever here but there's a bit of a paradox in the latter half of winter. Strong sun combined with still potential arctic cold results in burning of leaves on broadleaved evergreens (including palms). What happens is the plant's leaves warm up, loose water through transpiration but may not be able to suck up the water from the frozen ground.--Still, the warming sun does feel good. So far really pleased with how my Trachys look this year (which so far has seems fairly mild locally).

I went ahead and pulled as much snow back from the yuccas and out of their crowns. So far rostrata, aloifolia, and rostrata appear to be fine. Treculeana looked waterlogged but we'll see how they really fared come spring. I also gave the crowns a small shot of liquid copper.

That should really help a lot. Its nice and mild over here these past few days (40s, which is great considering recent weather), if its nice by you too, than I think whatever damage occured will be shown, and the plants will thaw out too.

Good luck!

Hey bradleyo
Wouldn't be a bad idea to make a little roof to cover plants from precip in fall/winter.
Maybe something removable?

Glad to hear they are holding up!