February in my backyard

The big freeze in January left its mark in my yard.  My "taller than an avatar" avocado tree (15 ft.) that I grew from a seed is looking bad. My beautiful blue flowered plumbago bushes look dead too. Hope they both come back to life in the spring.

But all isn't doom and gloom. Many plants here in south Texas thrive in the cold and were unaffected the unusually hard freeze we had. My holly bushes produced their biggest crop of berries. My fall veggie garden, which was totally unprotected during the freeze, is still producing. That's south Texas for you.