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I am in exactly the same situation with my fig tree. However, we found that even though the figs look ripe, they no longer taste as good as before the freeze... That accidental early freeze really put a damper on things...
My husband is going to try one today or tomorrow. He suspects what you said will be true of these figs. He grew up eating figs that his father grew, so I'll take his word for it.
Caladiums (all 96 of them, with the exception of one defiant spike on one plant)
Coleus
Begonias
Torenias (my precious, luscious, gigantic, trailing-just-the-way-I-wanted-it torenia!!!!)
Hybrid impatiens
Moonflower
Passion flower
Celosia
All of the above are to be expected, but... sigh. And I'm not an indoor plant person, so I didn't even consider bringing anything inside.
Still doing well:
Chrysanthemums of all kinds
Any sedum that is still blooming
Heuchera/coral bells
Toad Lilies (love my toad lilies!)
Doing OK, hanging in there:
Scented geraniums, which got enormous this year
Some of my agastache
My fig tree, which had just started yielding ripe fruit, now has all its leaves curled up. They will fall off soon. I told my husband I hope he enjoyed the 2 figs I harvested, because that's all he is getting! It was slow off the mark this year because last winter was so awful.
Anyone else have a hard frost yet? Anyone want to make me envious by telling me you don't get hard frosts where you live?
So much death in my garden today; it inspired me to put my Halloween yard decorations up.
I am already daydreaming about next spring. Tulip, daffodil, crocus and hyacinth bulbs should arrive via UPS any day.
sorry so many died at once: I hope you had a proper furneral for them. We are expecting our first freeze tonight, but our plastic flowers should do just fine.
Well, we have a couple of defiant begonias that just refuse to die. We have had 3 hard frosts so far, with temps as low as 30. Imagine my surprise:
The second photo shows how everything else around these two begonias, including other begonias, is dead. The yellow flower is my little breath of fresh air. You can't see it in the photo, but that plant has 2 other buds.
Hmm, not sure why my photos disappeared in the above post. I saw them embedded in the post when I originally made it. I'll repost them here, but I'll leave them as thumbnails to be clicked, just to be safe.
BTW, last night's 27-degree temp. killed the begonia. When I went outside this morning, it looked like it had melted. Ah, well, it was nice to have it so far into November.
We had a touch yesterday. The Impatiens are hanging in there, but they don't look good. I brought my orange and lime trees into the garage. They will spend the winter in front of a sunny window. Last year, this worked out good. I brought in a Staghead fern and an air plant and they're hanging in the bathroom. March 15th is the last chance of frost here, so its not that long for them to be inside.
Everything else will just sink or swim. Here in zone 8, most things are hearty, and only the tropicals die off.
Interestingly, I was riding around the neighborhood and saw a huge orange tree covered with fruit, planted in the ground. I wonder how mine would do, but I'm afraid to chance it.
It's 8 degrees this morning with a foot of snow on the ground. My garden is not only dead, it disappeared.
It's just sleeping! At least that is what I tell myself in the winter time.
We have a couple stubborn plants here that have just refused to die, despite a number of hard frosts. I think the warm weather we have been mostly having is giving them some hope. I have a pot of Gaillardia that still has some buds and new blooms on it.
I still have a number of bulbs to plant, so I am hoping the warmer weather lasts a bit longer. I hate it when the soil is so cold my hands hurt! It's finally raining here today, so at least the bulbs I already planted are getting some water. Grow, babies, grow! See ya in the spring.
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When I went outside this morning, it looked like it had melted. 
Ah, well, it was nice to have it so far into November.
