Today, since it was nice I took protection down for the Mexican planted in the ground to cut off the visible browned fronds and to check the base. The base was still green, but the last spear/frond trying to come out the top was brown and was firm when I tugged on it. I cut away all the old dead fronds to leave what is in the pic and put everything back together.
I'm confident it will come back just fine, and if it does will move slightly further away from the house as I know it wouldn't be able to clear the eve of the house in a year or two. I sure hope these "near misses" with cold hardens them a little more. This is this palms 2nd winter in the ground.
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