I planted a Yew (Podocarpus) in the middle of summer last year...it looked/felt to me like it was doing just fine into the fall and early winter. A really unusual deep freeze hit in early February (I am in the Dallas, TX, USA area)...it now looks like this:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kzd07qs5chu52ke/2021-06-09%2009.51.45.jpg
There is clearly some new growth trying to push up/out. If I trim away dead stuff is the plant likely to survive? Or would I just be "spinning my wheels", so to speak?