Garden destroyed...

Well I posted in a thread of the HAIL we got last evening.. just after returning from the days work.. and indeed it was bad.. there's nothing that escaped.. there was a rain forcast for earlier in the day.. but it didn't materalize... the storm blew in though... first heavy rain and winds... then hail... not like a hail storm... where you're pelted.. this was like a truck load of ice was dumped at once... lasting 5 minutes... blowing down at a 45* angle.. and smashng everything... this is a picture of the garden 4 days ago...

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ths is the same view in the early light of day...

my glass gazing globe that had spent 8 years strong

What a tremendous disaster! I feel so sorry that it happened to your beautiful spot. I can't imagine your shock and unhappiness when you saw it. I will hope and pray that everything is salvagable and that you've help and energy to save it. It was such a beautiful place (from pics you've shown) and the pictures you have show us have been a joy to see. I know all will be feeling for you and pulling for you.
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Thanks Helen..
yes.. well it was only battered.. and robbed of it's late season extreme beauty.. It's mostly alive.. well the only help is with my paid laborer... but we've other things for him to do this week.. it's just cleanup.. all of the tips and lmmbs were so battered.. I doubt they willl do well rooting.. so I'll likely not have them to send out in pruning them....
The heart break is in losing the second, thrid or fourth flush... but the worst of it is not having first flush/blooming on something i've developed and set into growth....
It's not like killing them or having them stolen ... and I suffered no physical pain yet... but I haven''t cleaned it up... just financial pain... and it snapped my flag pole n 1/2... that was the biggest ticket item... as it happened just before taps and the evening services...
I seem to have a few yellowing leaves... see picture.... what can be doing to help this

Gordon, I'm so sorry to hear about the damage. I wish I could be there to help with the clean up. I know first hand the destruction hail can do. 3 of the six cuttings you sent me first survived my family leaving the garage door open for 4 days of the coldest temps we had last winter while I was out of town, then a hail storm early this spring took out the rest. After all that I went from 25 brugs down to 7. Since you won't have those last flushes I want to show you the first blush on 'Gordon's Best Noid' you sent me.

Axel Rose x Ludgers Windsong has one bud on it and Miss Kaylee x Daydreams hasn't formed the Y yet.

I want to thank you again for being so generous and thoughtful. Your Noid has given me great pleasure as will the others. I'll pray that you do get another flush on your plants.

Gordon, so sorry you got all that damage! Wow! It sure can make a mess! Hope you can recover some of them.

Awe so sorry to hear this ... the anguish you must feel is worse than physical pain.

We all commiserate with you over those last precious blooms of the season.
May all your darlings come back bigger and better next Spring.

Gordon,

I'd like to add my sentiments on your loss of blooms and branches. Your photos have always brought joy to all. Fortunately, they should all recover. As for the yellowing leaves, that is probably delayed damage due to physical trauma by the hail not great enough to tear the leaf, but some damage never-the-less, or exposure to and direct contact with the cold ice. I hope they recover and return healthier next spring.

Gordon, Im so sorry to hear of the hail storm damage on your
beautiful garden.
Best wishes for even more beautiful blooms next season.

Karen

Oh, won't that all just rot your socks.................hope that nothing was killed in the storm and just beat up. Maybe a pruning will stimulate some leaf growth if your weather stays warm for a bit yet. Luckily I've never had mine hailed on.........yet.

Gordon,
I'm sorry to see that your beautiful garden was so damaged. We had a bad thunderstorm here a few summers ago that produced alot of hail. It damaged all of my plants. It's heartbreaking to walk outside and see the broken branches, damaged flowers, buds and tattered leaves, especially knowing how hard you have worked to get them to their finest. All of my plants recovered, and yours will too.

What a bummer! Mother Nature rules with a iron fist vengeful!

Well... thanks all. we're all in recovery now.. and to top off the day the car died... not from the hail.. but it chose yesterday to stop... but in coasting to a stop.. encountered a paring spot[ a rarety here... so I drifted into it ... and managed to feed the meeter untill I could get it towed this morning .. so it sould be worse...

Boy seems like you can't catch a break, hoping for better luck comes your way take it easy

Gordon
I am so sorry you have too deal with that, hopefully there's enough time for them too rebound, too give you the Beautiful Blooms that you always post

Elizabeth

well.. here's a few shots of piles of hail

more .. so if it left 4" of ice and it fell in 3 or 4 minutes.. that's heavy hitting..

Gordon how sad to see your beautiful garden battered! I just know all will recover and be even more awesome if that is possible : )
Kim

How awful.

Thats a major bummer Gordon!!! It's a lot like getting kicked in the teeth I bet. I'm sure with some labor and love you can put it back together for next spring.
Are you going to prune heavy now or try a get another flush out of them? I'll bet in the city you are a zone higher than outside of it in the burbs. Hail tends to be a set back for the plants but a major heart ache for the gardener.
I've only been hit by hail once but it looked like someone had taken a shotgun to everything. Time and sweat will fix you right up. Good Luck!!

Wow that was alot of hail.. Sorry it damaged your beautiful garden..

exactly... just like a skatter gun... loaded with buck shot..
wouldn't trust any cutting to root or grow in a normal manner... the brusing must be massive... as it broke lots of limbs..along with shreddng the leaves/flowers/ buds....
I'm not sure what I'll be doing.. I mght just start over in the spring.. with a trip to get cuttings in Germany.. and save the piles of cash i pay to get them into a buildind I build on the roof.. and save on electrcity inside.. where the are kept growing...
if you were to show up here.. I'd make a ple of cuttngs and you could give them a try
Thanks Hunny GM and kim

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Oh Gordon, I just found this post. I am so very sorry for your loss, I know how much time and love you put into it. I just know that everything will re-bound with a tremendous vengence for you come spring. Head Up.. Deep breath, and know that all your friends here at DG care an awful lot for you and your garden, which I know you will have again, even better. It will be alot easier to move things in now, right? *hugs* from Kansas

Oh No Gordon, I am so sorry. I was hit with hail a few years ago, but no where near this bad.

Oh my! What a mess! I know you were just sick when you saw it in the first light of day! Sounds like you have a lot of decisions to make. I have so enjoyed the Gordon's best NOID I got from you.

Oh Gordon I just saw this. SO SORRY!! What a terrible thing to happen to such a beautiful garden. Bummer on the car too. Hope next week will be better for you.
I was just looking at blooms on one of the plants that you gave me. I always think of you when I see it blooming. I have spent the last few days walking through my garden pruning everything without a bud on it. Just hope to hold off the BIG pruning for another week before we get a freeze.

Charlotte.. well thanks.. I'm glad Gordon's best NOID s working out for you there.. does it do anything during the hotter part of the year there..
OH.. Thanks... Betty... I'm always thinking of you here n my garden.. I was patiently awaiting a bloom from your electric blue.red orchid cactus... it was elevated up on top of my entrance way.. where it would get the longest exposure to the sun..so I know it took a heavy hit... but it looks quite good.. if a bit battered.. I did get a nice bloom on your heirloom night bloomng cereus this summer .. it was dfferent from the one I got from Logees.. unfortunaately my aunt Velma ded and she can't sgn off on it being simlar to our old family herloom one we had and both lost one fall.. and then other plants are. doing well... to departed.. you're always thought of here.. in your georgeous moist mountain hollow..
that pcture above of the torn up Peach Parait.. has flowers open there.. now...

Gordon your best NOID had a really nice flush before the hot weather hit and then she didn't bloom during the heat. We set records for heat this summer. We stayed in the high nineties and 100's for weeks on end. But she is now loaded with buds again and I hope will bloom before we have a frost. We didn't have our first frost until Nov 13 last year. All my brugs are loaded with buds right now. They love this cooler weather we've been having. Now if I can just get rid of all the broadmites. The Bayer product I found would get rid of them for about a month and then I would see signs of them coming back. I sprayed with it twice. I was just beginning to signs of them again when I got my Judo and have sprayed everything with it. Hopefully it will do the trick before time to take them all inside. I kinda went crazy with them last year and think I'm going to be a bit overwhelmed when I start rounding them all up to take inside as they have grown considerably since I put them outside in the the spring.

they have grown considerably since I put them outside in the the spring.
WOW.. who would have thought...congratulatons...
oh.. do let me know what you think of the judo... was about to spray when I lost all my leaves to the hail... so I'll have no idea how it does till later.. during winter storage

Will let you know about the Judo. I've had broadmites on a couple of other things this year. Don't know if they started on the brugs or got on the brugs from the other stuff. I've had them on some of my impatiens. My impatiens reseed themselves and they have actually become invasive. They are huge and extremely hardy. I gave away tons of them and pulled up tons of them and still have far more than I want. I also have had broadmites on a tea shrub. I sprayed the tea shrub with Judo. The impatiens I've just been pulling up and destroying.

and here I am saving all my impatiens and seeds, since I love them so much. couldn't have them freezing!
I used the judo last week on the brug room. I will let you know how it goes.

Gordon, Axel rose x LWS still has not flowered for me, but he is big, from the seed you gave me two years ago. The mites have had their way with him over and over again. I pluck the leaves and tips when I see mites. I hope I don't have to do that again.

I love my impatiens also. But I have hundreds probably well over a thousand. If I don't pull them up they take over everything in the yard!!! I pulled up some yesterday that came to the middle of my hip almost to my waist and I'm 5' 7". I don't have to worry about saving them or the seed, they just keep coming back. Don't know why they are so hardy. The folks I've given them to tell me they perform far better than the ones they buy at the nursery.

well... just because they have lost all of their leaves... no reason not to flower...OH buds battered also... they will make do with what they have... in the hopes of gettng some pollen

some are having part of their larger flushes comming on ... it's heart warming to see them trying after such a disaster...

They're hanging on for sure!!!! That's good to see! They're pretty tough so I hope they rebound for you soon!!

poor babies... i love them because they are such troopers..

lots of lmbs.. smaller than a pincel were broken off... this picture shows the damage to the larger limbs... and t's the reason 'll not be sendng out cuttngs this year... the work involved for a mass mailng.. to send such battered stock.. and to have them rot or misbehave on rooting out .. is a concern for everyone

That's unbelievable!! To actually take chunks out of the limbs!!

Hail is a horrible destructive thing. I have had gardens totally flattened by it. My sons place got hit last month with hail stones the size of baseballs. he got a new roof, new siding, a new window, his car unscathed somehow. his plants I put in were flattened. thank fully, the brug was on the deck which was covered. His morning glory fence was all but a few stems after that storm. We only got pea sized here in Derby during that same storm, it put a few holes in leaves, broke a few branches, but nothing like what Gordon has gone thru. I had already laid my plants that I could over so the wind wouldn't do it for me.