Frustrated,
They are planted on the end of our deck, next to the house, about 4-5 in. deep I guess.
I'd have to say, with them being by your house/porch....
What you can have when planting at the base of your house is something called a Micro~Climate...
Extending the heat of your home into the ground a bit of distance from it...
Micro climate discussions No they had not come out of the ground yet,
That's even better yet, like Barb said,
It's going to depend on whether the rhizomes froze or not. If the ground did not have a freeze as deep as they are planted, they may be okay
and they weren't even poking their heads out yet, I'll bet they're tucked in still...
I'm sure that they could be seperated when you first see them popping out, they're still little
enough to be seperated and not much harm to their roots systems...
I don't grow them enough to say yes or no...
*anything I have to pull out of the ground to survive up here (zone 7) don't get planted....
Maybe pcgrav can help with the seperating info???
Weezie