Hi Arcy...Melissa in MN and I in WI are experiencing the same problems...I did have a lot of expected scorching because I moved a lot of plants. However, I had a lot of unexpected scorching from well-watered plants in the last week...it really showed after Tuesday, the hottest day.

Hi ladies. Here in Wilmington IL we have had similar conditions. We have already had 6 days over 90 and the last 3 were over 95. This is when our hosta leaves are still young and a little short on substance. My Hibiscus that I planted to filter the 2 hours of late morning sunlight on my S&S haven't grown enough yet to do it. By late July and August, when we normally get our hot weather, they will be. I have watered my S&S every day and it still is scorching. My Sagae on the other side of my entry shows no stress at all.

Les

A large portion of mine are scorched.... ones that I've never seen scorch before. It's awful. Really established hostas with lots of mulch.... over half their leaves decimated by the intense sun (right here around summer solstice), 2 days over 100 degrees, drying winds. I thought my ground had been soaked enough by the massive amounts of rain (heck, I hadn't even turned on the irrigation system till earlier this week), but clearly, the winds were too much. I had about 10 mosta with scorch even before the 100 degree days. Now I have a lot more than that!

I'm in Hanover (in the NW metro)--same with mine--some look pathetic!!

Hello,

It sure has been a year of different complexities. I have some scorched I would have never expected. I am wondering, with the late spring, the hosta leaves had not hardened off enough to be ready for the intense heat index.

I think you're onto something there Rick....
My scorch started 3 days before the heat set in. It almost looked like powdery mildew and at the time, I didn't even associate it with scorch. It wasn't until others in the garden showed similar issues and they were all in sun.

So ick.

For the past 3 years I have been graphing weather conditions such as normal hi and lo temps, actual hi and lo temps, rain, etc. My graphs are monthly, day by day, beginning 3 days before the end of a month and ending 3 days into the next month. I notate significant garden events on each graph. I do this using 1/4" graph paper. It has come in handy re: planning my garden work.

I can easily lay the monthly graphs for 2009, 2010 and now 2011 on the table and compare our weather. This year has certainly been impressive, in a negative way. The weather cycles are pretty uniform, with near record lows and near record highs cycling almost every 8 days. This year I have had the latest freeze, the latest frost and the earliest 90+ temps in the three years. My Hosta show it, with freeze and frost damaged leaves and now scorch, all within 30 days. Thank God for no hail or tornados. But our favorite plants have survived thousands of years on our earth and have seen it all before. If I have learned nothing more, it is that after adversity, Hosta seem to come back as strong or stronger than ever. Like I said in another post, we have to be like Chicago Cub fans - wait until next year!

Les

"Thank God for no hail or tornados." Bite your tongue!!!!
I was at the theater about 2 1/2 miles from my home last night....and listening to hail pound on the roof....and fretting. 45 minutes later when the show was over and I was on my way home I was passing gutters full of hail, some of it gold ball sized..leaves in the road etc.....as I got within 1/2 a mile of my house....it lessened and then no hail.....and amazingly enough I see no evidence of hail at my house....
Yes, Thank God for no hail!
Linda C

Linda, glad you escaped the hail (hope the movie was good!)

It has been raining very lightly here most of the day, almost like fine mist. I noticed that all of those scorched hostas are upright, happy looking and perky...if only the rest of the summer could be a cool 70 degrees with an early morning mist. For today, the hostas and I are all enjoying the respite from that heat.

I am also in the Twin Cities area and several of my hostas suffered scorch last week. (And I was relishing the fact that I was in Florida last week at "only" 92 degrees while everyone back home was suffering in 103 temps on Tuesday.) Appears that the hostas with white/lighter edges suffered the most. My neighbor tells me there were very high winds combined with the hot temps, so I'm thinking the leaves dried out from a combination of wind and the hot temps.