Originally Posted by echinosum

You might want to try forums such as hardytropicals.co.uk and growingontheedge.net which specialise in this kind of thing.

lannerman gave you a good starting point, but you'll get more detail from the above. Another popular hardy exotic group that have been trashed this winter are the Callistemons (bottle brushes) - even my C. subulatus, allegedly the hardiest of the red-flowered type, is not clearly alive. Some survivals for me (in the Chilterns) include Grevillea rosemarinifolia, Fabiana imbricata prostrata, Daphne odora, Tasmannia (Drimys) lanceolata and Pseudopanax crassifolius

Incidentally, you were asking about climbers in the bamboo thread. Very few evergreen climbers are reliably hardly, beyond ivy. But I observe that my neighbour's trachelospermum (I am not sure which) has come through fine - but it needs a sunny position. My Berberidopsis corallina seems to be alive - it needs the opposite, a shady position, and a lot of cover from other plants, mine is protected by bamboo.