Oh, I am so sorry! :-( They will look pretty raggedy and unhappy for a while, but, you know what, I bet they will all recover. Plants are pretty amazing.

I live right over the border from Arvada in Westminster. The hail seems to have spent its fury in Arvada last night, as I heard that the hail there was much larger than the pea-sized hail we had here. There was some damage here but nothing like what happened to your hostas. I don't have near as many hostas as you do, and luckily those I have are all sheltered beneath trees so are relatively undamaged, but I really like them so I feel your pain.

Holly

Hi oakiris! I live very close to Westminster. In fact, I'm so far east in Arvada that I'm not even Jefferson County. So I'm probably quite close to you. I had pea, then marble sized hail for well over 40 minutes. It seemed like it was coming at an angle from the North, so the North side of the house took a bigger hit I think. Of course, that's where many of my hostas live.

I just got off the phone with my aunt who works at a large garden center and she said to give them all a foliar feeding of Age Old Kelp and to just cut off the badly damaged leaves, not sheer them off.

I'm sure they will come back and there's always next year . That's the beauty of hostas, their perennial nature. They are hardy things!

I love them. If you ever want a start of one, send me a message and I'll happily share a chunk. But I warn you, I have kept almost none of the labels so don't ask me for the name.

Oh, that really is sad, Mama! Looks like they were doing beautifully before they got clobbered!

I way second what your aunt said! Cut off the worst of the damaged leaves now and then let some new ones start growing before you remove some of the other damaged ones. The GOOD news is that hosta LOVES water! At least you don't need to worry about them being damaged by all the rain.

I'm keeping an eye on radar, and there's ALREADY another tornado warning--this time for far-southeast Denver! Gonna be another "interesting" day!

Skybird

I did get one of the hostas available at the plant swap this weekend - I am pretty sure it was one of yours, popmama, so I already have a sample. :-) I would love to have more, of course, but I reckon that will have to wait until yours have recovered - they are already rather traumatized, I imagine it will be a while before any can be dug. Thank you for the offer!

I don't want another "interesting" day, Skybird! Take that back! lol I fear the rest of the spring and on into the summer will continue to be "interesting," and not something we - as gardeners or as homeowners - will particularly enjoy. (I refuse to check my crawlspace; surely there isn't a foot of water down there....)

Holly

Yep, I'm sure that was one of my babies, oakiris. I don't think anyone else brought any hostas. That one gets big. Really big.

I remember you mentioning that the leaves get quite large; I think I have it planted in a place where it has enough room to grow happily. As long as it makes it through this unpleasant weather we are having this spring, I guess I will find out!

Holly

I was pretty worried last night too especially I just planted something new right before the tornado started. I went out to look first thing in the morning, and they looked ok. I will pick up some nice variety of hosta for you if I see any.

I'm sorry, popmama. Good luck! I use a mild foliar kelp drench a few days after a hail. It has been one heckuva spring!

Oh, they look sad popmama! So sorry. My bleeding heart kind of looks that way from the snow we got awhile back. Won't recover much this season, but will be fine for next. But it's early enough for your hostas - with the good advice you got, you should get some of their lovely leaves. back.

Wow - I got my tomatoes covered again just in time - we are getting a whopper of a down pour just now!! Then a big dump of hail - small, but a lot!! Don't know if you can quite tell my this quick pic I took or not:

Man, when will this end?!!!

I still have my tomatoes covered since yesterday. I'm not sure i I should take the covers off.

I lost count how many times yesterday I covered/uncovered my vege plants! Getting my exercise doing that for sure ;-) I got them uncovered this morning again, but will cover them back up before I take off to do shopping - weather report says rain/storms might begin again in my area around noon, so just want to play it safe. Once they get better established and a bit bigger, I'll quit doing this, but for now want to give them every chance I can of making it!

Marj

Hostas will recover.

Yikes! Your hostas look like they really took a beating popmama. You have my sympathies.