IGot2P wrote:
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?

Don


Don,

Plants like tulips and daffodils will be fine -- don't cut them back but
do cut off the dead flowers. Depending on how cold it got, your hostas
may not make it. The best thing to do is to trim back the dead foliage
and see if they come back. It may take several months to see new shoots
on your hostas.
--
Bill R. (Ohio Valley, U.S.A)

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