Yes the bluebonnets are out and my Yucca faxoniana should be blooming right along with them but I am in mourning. Today was the day that I had to do something about it. Here it is in 2017. It had sailed through the 2011 coldfront with ease but alas this one was different. It did not like the wet ice for such a long time. It is a Big Bend Yucca.

today I took my pole saw and started cutting sections and checking the flesh. It was soft and stinky all the way down.

What a mess!!!!!!! It kept going and going. All the segments showed soft stinky flesh

I finally got firm flesh here. I also found a tiny knob pushing out of the ground right by the trunk. Maybe it will get a bunch of energy from this root system.. There is always hope.

I am seeing life in some of my Agave pineapples. The Mr. Rippley I had given up for toast but it is recovering quickly!

The A. porto-americana looks like it will survive. I bet the shock will push this into bloom this summer. I hear that freezes can do that.