I tell you what I'd do...Either let them tough it out or dig the suckers up and bring them inside for a few days. I've often dug plants up if I thought they were going to be destroyed. I think those do good in pots anyways. I wish you luck with them!

I know what you're going through. I put a tomato cage around one of my roses last night because it kept losing canes to the strong winds we've had. Everything else is on their own as I've got too many plants to protect them all. Hail and wind won't usually kill a plant but it might look bad for a while until it grows new leaves.

I have discovered that often the plants suffer more damage from the "protection" than from the peril.
Which would you rather? To for sure beat up all your flowers from winds blowing and beating them up with plastic covering? or taking a chance on "perhaps" hail?
I'll take the perhaps rather then the sure thing...remove the plastic.
I sure know the heartbreak of loosing everything to hail...but in all my 50 years of gardening, it's only happened twice. I have had "some" damage....and minor damage...but a real beating is rare and in a narrow margine.
And that recommendation from a hosta gardener....where 10 hail stones makes me cry!!
Linda C

Got any big kitchen pots? trash cans? rubbermaid storage containers? Baskets? Clothes hampers? Put them over your plants and weight them down with rocks or bricks. They don't look pretty, but short of a tornado or hurricane, they'll protect your plants. If you're like me, you can't cover everything, but at least you might be able to save blooms that you only get once a year. Most things will recover before the season's out.

Thanks everyone! Just got back online from a power outage(our 3rd since yesterday). Did I mention the wind? I don't have any containers I can use...this apartment building doesn't have much storage space. I'll probably take off the bags and hope for the best. It's just that I started these from seed last year and I've been really anxious for them to bloom. As far as hail damage, I know it usually won't kill the plants, but I've lost tons of tomatoes and other veggies to hail the last few years. After the work that's put into the plants, it just gets depressing. If we were on our own land I could be(a little)more prepared, but like I said, there's not much I can store here in the way of gardening supplies. Thanks again for the responses!