Almost all of us in the south experienced the same unusually harsh winter, and the plumeria-lovers I chat with in south Texas had the same problem. They lost plumeria that had been in the ground for decades. Like you, Swayback, I lost a lot of tropical plants, more than 100 of them. My greenhouses were full and I just didn't have room for them. I lost dozens of jade, aloe vera, rubber trees, and schlefflera. I also lost a huge Peace Lily (had two dozen flowers the previous spring) and two, 5-6' tall Madagascar Dragon Trees. I have a "pecking order" as to what plants are brought in to over-winter in the greenhouses/enclosed porch, and all those plants that were lost were not high in that pecking order.
My passion is orchids but I also grow a lot of bromeliads, staghorn ferns, tillandsia, and fiddle leaf ficus. I do still have some fairly large jade and a handful of rubber trees, schlefflera, and aloe vera that I managed to bring in. I have perhaps 700 or so tropical plants, so losing those 100+ did not put much of a dent in what I have.
