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The tropicals and subtropicals are generally pretty good about coming back after a hard freeze, especially with a generous layer of mulch which you're doing anyway. They form the backbone of my garden and I just accept they will freeze back and things will look rough in early spring. I get that others may not want their garden looking that way for a couple months each year. That is a great split leaf Philodendron.

That flush is over a decade old and long gone now, so not much I can do to green that one. Neither this one nor the female in my Leucadia garden were the real Cycas debaoensis. Multifrondis seems to be the best match. Both are still very attractive plants.

I just ordered some 😁

This system has produced the first snowfall to sea level in central Wellington for 15 years (not settling). It also is potentially going to knock around some sensitive palms in the most of the time frost free Northland and Bay of Plenty regions. Here, I'll take it if it ends up being two repeats of last week, as have weathered that ok, and what will be hit already has been.