OMG Deb!!! This is so terrible.! And that manager should actually be glad you have so many plants around the property. They enhance it.

I would take whatever looks like it has a chance out of the soil. Shake as much soil of the roots and give the plant and roots a good hosing. Since round-up soaks in the roots perhaps this will help.

I'm sorry Deb. unfortunately you may not see the full extent of the damage for a couple days. Keep us posted

Glyphosate can take up to a fortnight to have effect. What isn't killed then has a good chance of survival, but won't necessarily look healthy. To wash it off you need to do it within a couple of hours of application, preferably sooner. Once it penetrates the plant it just keeps moving through it. The manager should be able to extract some compensation from the yard crew, although chasing it up might not be worth the trouble. Good luck with it.

It's been more than a couple of days, this was done on Wednesday. I'm still going to try with the brugs, though. I had two banana pups sold, and I had to call and tell them not to come, because they may not live. Bananas are pretty sensitive to weed killer.

I read on one site that for small plants, if you dig them and sit them into a pot of water overnight so they can be flushed with clear water, then plant them in fresh potting soil, they may live, so that's what I'm going to do with the brugs. I'll plant them deep, so they can make more roots along the stem. I know it's a long shot, but I have to try.

Bea, the manager had nothing to do with it. He loves my plants. The yard crew is contracted out, and they've done similar things in the past -- mowed down someone's baby hibiscus TWICE. For some reason, they don't like to trim and edge. When my manager complained they hadn't trimmed a spot in front of his apartment, they sprayed that with roundup too. Thing is, they edge and trim at the other complex, where the manager lives, but they don't do it here unless they're forced to.

Well, I dug up all but one of the brugs, and I'm just going to pray for that one. Washed off their roots, clipped off most of the bottom leaves, put them in fresh soil and watered them well. Tha'ts about all I can do. I put them in the shade to recover, and now I'm just going to pray.

I left one Charles Grimaldi out in the garden, where I think it probably didn't get as much damage as the other did. Hopefully, it will live, but if it doesn't, I have more at least.

I'm just so sad and sorry. I was heart-broken for you when I read the subject. I know it was maybe a mistake, but still, just too bad! I hope most or all (!) of the plants survive.

Carol

Omg i am sorry to hear that.that is a nightmare.

Deb, how are the datura and sweet potatoes?

Bea - the datura had two branches, and one looks fine, but the other had yellowed leaves on top, which I cut off. Sad, because it had just made a Y, so it would have been putting out blooms soon. The red sweet potatoes are gone. The new leaves are coming out yellow, but that's o.k. I wasn't planning on a big crop anyway, because I planted them too late, so no great loss. I'll just dig them up and start over next year. The purple sweet potatoes are untouched. They didn't spray around those. I'm watching the Charles Grimaldi closely that was planted close to the red sweet potatoes to see if it shows any signs, but I took all the bottom leaves off, so it may be fine.

The Christmas Cassia has random yellowing leaves, but that could be seasonal, although it's right next to the datura and sweet potatoes that were affected. It's probably big enough to live through it, but I may not get any blooms this year, and I worry about the sulfur butterflies that might lay eggs on it. I;m watching it closely, and may have to just cut it back should I see any butterlies around it.

The worst part is not knowing what strength they sprayed, so I don't know if this place will be o.k. to plant in next year or not. If they used the heavy-duty industrial strength, it can stay in the soil for a year. That's what I need to get the manager to find out. I may just have to give up on those beds if they used the strongest one.

I remember one year when i was living in a some townhouse i planted marigolds i had grown from seeds. They were only about 3 inches tall but had started to flower. The lawn crew came thru and although they had never ever before, they decided to pull 'weeds'. They pulled every marigold out of the very well defined bed(as in there was a wood surround around the bed)( the marigold had orange and chinese red flowers so not sure why they were deemed weeds)...they left the actual weeds but pulled the marigolds. They tended to spray weed killer but tended to only spray the grass so that my front yard was more a sand pit where a oak stump had been ground down sometime before my renting there. I made sure to take the name as to never use them when i got my own place.

Talked to the manager this morning, and he said it was probably an act of spite because he chewed them out about not ever trimming or edging behind my building. They did the same thing to the small bed in front of his building when he chewed them out about not trimming it for weeks. He did confirm that they use the professional strength stuff that lasts a year, so that area is out for planting my sweet potatoes next year. I can't plant anything tender or edible up there for at least a year, so I have no choice but to rethink everything.

Silvia, yeah, I had sort of planned to do a rip-out and redo of all the gardens this winter anyway. It's a huge experiment most years, and I can see that I've made some mistakes that need to be remedies. So far, it looks like the brugs I dug up are going to make it, but that leaves me with no place to put them now. Definitely need a complete redo.

Pea, These idiots weed-whacked my border grass on one end of the garden, and now they've sprayed roundup down there, so I don't know if it's going to live or die. I had a BF once who wanted to "help" me in the yard with weeding. He pulled up an entire orange jasmine bush by the roots! It was over a foot tall, and I had just told him not to pull anything but grass. I later found out he would do stupid stuff like that so he didn't have to do yard work anymore. Yeah, he's an "ex," and the one who made me give up on men entirely.

Deb, try pots for a while, at least till the garden is going through a time for clean up and sort what is alive or not.

Silvia, that's a good idea. I have some landscape cloth I bought on sale last year. If I put a double layer of it and put pots on top, maybe that will keep their roots from growing into the poisoned soil. Or I can put plastic down. We'll see what happens after the winter.