I know that feeling. When we sold out home in 2003, the people who bought it saw it in December, we still had temps in the 70's-80's and had not had a freeze, we didn't get a freeze until early January, but fortunately they had already seen what was where and so when some of it went dormant they knew it was still there and coming back. There are still Ensete maurellii growing there that I planted in the late 1990's. We drive by once and a while and look at what's there. They kept almost everything I ever planted.