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Sun, May 18, 14 at 22:42
| hi all, I live in Montana, zone 5. I have some iris's that were big and beautiful and full of flowers ready to bloom. A couple hours ago, they were completely destroyed by golf ball size hail. every flower stalk broken off and gone. most of the leaves shredded. Will these plants recover and look better as the summer goes on? I'm not expecting any more flowers to come up, but will the plant recover or should I just cut it down and call it a loss for the year? (to avoid looking at my beat up shredded plants all summer) Thanks. |
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| They may look a mess but it won't kill them. I'd trim off any really broken flower stems but otherwise leave them alone and let them recover. Cutting photosynthesising green foliage off, even if shredded, would be counter productive. |
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- Posted by lazygardens PhxAZ%3A Sunset 13 (My Page) on Mon, May 19, 14 at 4:55
| Ow, that hurts! Splint up the broken flower stems with chopsticks or something and wait a couple of weeks. Then trim off the dead parts of the plant and let them keep as much live material as possible. They need the leaves top make food to store in the rhizomes |
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- Posted by ken_adrian MI z5 (My Page) on Mon, May 19, 14 at 7:23
| there is an iris forum .... lots of great experts there ... if you want to double check us... i usually dont hang there.. because of pix envy .. i want them all .... but flora is spot on ... even damaged leaves.. photosynthesize.. to store energy in the rhiz, for next year ... so leave them be.. until the usual time to cut them back ... ma nature damaged them enough.. no piling on ... lol ... ken |
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