Plant natives. Daffodils will recover

I am counting ANY green on a plant as success. My garden is young....less than three years old. I have baby trees I worry about most. My button bush and two paw paw seedlings were leafless already and so already looked lifeless. The buttonbush, I heard, is notoriously late to leaf out, so I will be holding my breath metaphorically until it finally does. The paw paws eventually should be carefree trees, but the first couple of years in the ground are the delicate ones, so I am concerned. Aside frome my scarlet sage and pineapple salvias looking dead-dead, the rest of my yard fared decently. ( I reseeded some scarlet sage today). Satsuma came through, though I see no blossom buds at all. I even had a spider plant that had been outdoors for two years, I had stuck in an unheated greenhouse, put a frost blanket over, and it looked like a pile of dead slugs. But it is now resurrecting itself from its little tuber-roots!

I have several plants suffering, also, and ferns that had been holding well are bruised and smashed, all now cut back (almost time anyway). What I had was 4-5" layered ice & snow, very heavy.

Don't trim anything for another couple of weeks, there is a lot of superficial damage that will simply fall off and new leaves will sprout. I have to keep my pruning shears locked up right now. If it is dead, letting it stay will not make it any deader, if it is just damaged, cutting may expose it to disease and insects that would otherwise not be a problem. I inspect almost every day, and I see more damage and more reasons for hope. That -2 did a lot of damage, just don't make it worse.

Many of my shrubs in Oklahoma have the same reaction. My blackberries seem to have the most damage. Despite nothing but Brown crinkly leaves they are budding though.