had to repot like 90% of the outdoor plants because one of the dogs got accidentally left outside for a couple hours, poor girl tried to make a nest on top of the plants/cover over them
went to let the other dog out at 1:30..20 degrees outside... had just watered the containers the day before, and about 15 cups and various other containers smashed down or tipped over and smushed sideways and almost all the cups looked like this one. all the plant material both dead that needed trim and alive were soaked and floppy as can be just swimming in the collectively squeezed juices of all their pots.
it was a stressful night temporarily doublecupping the pieces and trying to wiggle plants basically back into their cups. took 2 1/2 hours yesterday to clean it all back up properly and get them situated in their new cups (and also ordered the 5x5x7 white square pots they are going in!) - trimmed away all dead materials, they actually all will be fine but if you had asked me at 2AM that night we were going to lose a bunch it looks.... so....grim
in the morning when the kid and I went out and I warned her what I was going to show you, she shrieked upset, but we got it all tidied up. can barely even tell its winter if you didn't know how big they were before dormancy knocked em down!
post cleanup:
any cup here that does not look damaged is one that got replaced and looked like the first one above some slightly better, some slightly worse.. the ones barely damaged in the photo here, is likely duct taped back together.
lucky in spite of the scare, pup is fine just felt terrible for her and got some extra treats and wrapped up good for the night.