Some Answers Come Quickly; Frday the Thirteenth part 7

Warning:  The following images contain graphic depictions of plant death and may not be suitable for all viewers. 

After arriving home on Thursday evening, I took the dogs outside and saw that the musa basjoos, whose pseudostems I'd hoped would live through our recent cold snap, made it quite clear that they  had not survived. 

 Usually the stems remain upright through the winter because the leaves are fairly dry and light.  However, this season, there was still a bit of heavy green foliage on the plants before the freeze, too much for the compromised stems to hold.  Down the 15 foot mass of soaked leaves and stems crashed making a big pile of mush.
 I worked a few leaves away from the camellia and rhododendron they were crushing.  The weight actually broke a bamboo stake that was supporting the camellia .  The banana has died to the ground before but has never collapsed in such a dramatic manner  in the course of a day. 
 This stuff is wet, slippery and slimy, resembling snot covered fish guts.  (Lovely image, yes?)  The lovely bonus of this slimy mess is that it's all connected by strong fibers for which the plant is grown which makes the clean u[ that much more special.  There's enough here to fill a couple of compost bins.  I'll chop up as much as I can and leave it in situ to decompose, the rest will go to the compost bin where it breaks down  surprisingly quickly.  There is some hope that the stems beneath the breaks might hold up and give some additional starting height next spring.  I suppose the good news is that I won't be putting off the banana clean up like I usually do and after doing it wonder why I didn't do it sooner because it opens up an interesting view.








I don't have the heart to go check on the Melianthus major quite yet.  O.K. all of you who've just been through this cold snap, do you have any damage to report yet?  Bring out your dead!