Re: CULT: So What is the consensus?

What do we do to undo the damage from the recent freezing weather. Do we let nature take it's course or do we go out & cut off what is frozen or cut them back entirely or-or-or What? > Connie Eggen 
Zone 5
Warsaw, Mo



Wish I knew!
I hate to cut off foliage that has any possibility of contributing to growth, but will be pulling off leaves (and fans) that are rotting at the base. Pulling seems like it would do less additional damage than cutting, but these guys are so damaged, it may not matter.
This <kind> of damage happens most years, but nothing anywhere near as severe as this, and usually only the most sensitive irises have been killed outright. Seeing all the leaves on the trees on surrounding hills burnt black & brown has <really> been a downer. The maples seem to have escaped injury, and poplars are starting to put out new green, but the oaks & hickories still look like they've been poisoned. Not sure how long it will take them to make new leaf buds.
Griff, I'm not surprised you escaped the worst of this - generally is worse west of the Appalachian Mountains than east, where you get a little amelioration from the ocean.
But I think everybody in the middle of the country (east of the Rockies, west of the Appalachians) have been hit harder than anyone can remember. Not sure how far north & south the damage extends. 
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