"IGot2P" wrote in message
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Here in extreme SE Iowa (zone 5) we had a couple of weeks of VERY warm
weather thus most all of the early flowers came up big time. Immediately
following this warm spell we had just the opposite, down in the twenties
at night. :-(

Well, needless to say the plants really suffered. The tulips and daffodils
appear to be recovering but the hostas are really a mess and most of them
were about 8 to 12 inches tall when the cold weather came.

Finally, the question; do we cut them back or just wait and see how they
make out on their own?

Ours had the same thing happen to them. We also lost many blooming stalks on
our iris. They just toppled and turned to mush. Our daffs were already
through blooming. The azalea buds and flowers are gone. Our garden will be
a lot less colorful this spring.


Don