IGot2P wrote in :

Michael "Dog3" Lonergan wrote:
IGot2P :

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, I live in St. Louis Missouri and we had a bitter, hard freeze as
well. Your hostas should be just fine. Mine show the freeze but
I've seen this before, and the hostas should pop up and do their
business as usual. Hostas are very hardy... at least in my
experience.

Michael

I hope that you are correct but I have not seen any "pop up" action
yet. You are about three and one half hours south of me so hopefully
your freeze was not quite as bad. Anyway, time will tell what the
hostas will do. Cheers,
Don




Did they have flower spikes on them? I think things that were about to
flower will not flower again this year. The greenery will come back,
though, if they didn't expend ALL their reserves on the first leafing.