We had a bad hailstorm that shredded some of my stuff, but it sounds like you got it much worse than we did. Most of my plants made it out ok. Some of the hostas were shredded to bits, and others look fine. Luckily it didn't last long here, but the chunks of ice were big. -Ais.

raye- so sorry to hear about your hail damage and you too Ais. I'm up near the border to VA. We had hail about the size of quarters and I only had damage to my coleus. Our creek filled quickly and once again I watched freshly sown grass seed head for the creek. This has been yet another weird weather season thus far.

Yep, all my leaves shredded again - some had just put out new leaves after March hail we got. Louisiana iris behedded. Boo hoo.

After hearing those weather reports I knew some people's gardens were going to be pummelled. That sort of thing is so frustrating and there's nothing you can do. Where is Denver? How large was the hail that you got?

Denver is about 20 miles northwest of Charlotte. We had at least golfball size hail here, some maybe a little bigger. I know some of it still hadn't melted in the shade on Monday evening.

i had some things damaged- noticed holes in my water lily leaves, persimmons & some others. it beheaded some seedling sunflowers. :( we had probably 15 or 20 mins of hail, but a lot of it was slushy. the largest hard balls were 1/2" or so; the largest slushy seemed to be about nickel sized. sounds like denver had it much worse; ours was melted within about an hr. tam

here is a great link about the recent hailstorm from the nation weather service office in raleigh.

Here is a link that might be useful: weather link

I'm in Columbia, SC, and the hailstorm shredded lots of my plants, beheaded some poppies, and made a giant mess of my poor gardens. For some reason, the hail demoralized me~