On Apr 10, 11:39 pm, 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

Hello Don. Good question. I am always amazed how much earlier everyone
elses plants sprout before mine. I definitely lucked out on my hostas
because they are still just nubs sticking out of the ground.
Regardless, they are the least of my gardening worries as it pertains
to that cold snap we experienced in zone 5 last week. I planted a few
small plants I bought a couple weeks ago and I have to say they don't
look so good. But I believe that even these plants will bounce right
back as soon as the warm weather comes our way.