Lagniappe

For my older plants, this was the fourth winter. Mind you, we've not had a major winter storm during that time, not an extended one, at least.
The water that pools in their leaf bases freezes solid during some winter nights here. The same pools serve as a frog hatchery in the Spring.
I do 'jump to conclusions' about plants. For instance, I lost a Goldfinger one year and I'm afraid to try it again....silly of me. But I pushed these plants to extremes. Remember the hardiness test from last year? I placed many maurelii in the beds, some protected, some not,some large, some with little or no corm yet, these all survived.
I'm sure there's some microclimate factors and I know that nature can surely throw a curve-ball into all of this, but these guys have really impressed me.