I think the lilies will recover. New leaves should develop if the roots were not damaged. The water hyacinth leaves that are not attached to roots should be removed as they will eventually turn brown and rot. I would keep any plants that still have roots in the pond and see what happens. If they turn brown, then they should be removed. Hopefully, some will survive. There sould be enough summer left to determine what will survuve.

Sorry for your loss and best of luck with the recovery.

I went through this two or three years ago and it just made me sick to see all the damage. The taros and other broad leaved plants were the worst. They looked like ragged lace. I trimmed up as much as possible, leaving what was viable even if it was not pretty and most of the plants recovered. It took a while. Good luck. Sandy

The damaged leaves will probably not regenerate, but new leaves will come up to replace them. Not to worry. Go ahead and trim off the old ones. It will encourage the new growth more quickly.

We had a bad storm here early yesterday morning also. No hail damage where I live, but all my purple fountain grass is flattened and the tall beautiful impatiens in the flower bed looks like someone fell right in the middle of them. Usually this kind of thing happens here in the spring, not in the late summer, so we were caught off guard.

Sorry about your flower pots, though. Hopefully you can salvage the plants that were in them.

Thanks everyone for your help. I was hoping to work on the pond today and clean it up, but I got called into work. My pond looks so sad now and to think just less than 24 hours ago it was healthy and beautiful.

Boy, can I sympathize with you. I had the exact same thing happen to me 3 weeks ago. I lost all my fish, but one. My plants also looked like chopped cabbage. I ended up removing all my plants and emptying the pond and starting over. I trimmed most of the shredded leaves off my lilies and put them back in. Now they have pretty much recovered and have put up quite a few new leaves. Of course, the coverage of the pond is less than when it happened. My Water hyacinth and water lettuce are back in after I trimmed them up, but they're not doing too well. I think I need to take them out and put them in a tub with fertilizer. The rest of my plants and trees look like they have taken a beating, but I guess there's always next year.

Take out the dead/ruined plant material. They will recover, as stated by others if the root/base is undamaged.

Sorry about your fish though. Just swimming along the BAM hit by a ice cube. What a way to go:O

Thanks everyone. After I got home this afternoon, I scooped out as much destroyed plants/leaves/flowers that I could. Everything looks awful! However, what was left of 2 flowers on my water lilies managed to open up today. They look pathetic, but they opened up.
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Your anacharis and fish look great so don't despair. I'd cut off most of those pads at the base of the stem and new ones will come up. I see a new plump waterlily bud coming up that is not damaged.

Sorry you have to go through this but things will jump back.

About a month ago I had the same grape sized hail. I was happy that I was inside under a roof when it happened!!! My taro was so shredded they looked like a bad philodendron. The surface of the pond looked like the makings of a salad as you said. I left the taro alone and picked out as much of the shredded water leaves as possible. Everything came back with no problems and the pond looks like nothing had happened. You'll be fine..

Hi
had a similar experience ,not with hail but bac k to back hurricanes. There was not a single leaf in the entire yard lol. Just as things started to leaf out again ,Jeanne hit and repeated the whole process. Pool and plants were flatened. Total of 32 days without electricity.
Not only did everything survive within three months it was difficult to tell anything had happened at all.
I removed as much broken debris as possible which turned out to be a good idea as we had a third that year and the trees needed pruning for sure .lol. Only one tree still has scars from the storms but everything survived including us lol.
I did lose 6 birds from the aviary from escape when the side was torn out and the Marine aquarium crashed . Decided not to replace it due to the expense.
About the only thing you can do is remove as much broken material as possible from the pool .
Hopefully there'll be enough time to recover before cold weather sets in??? gary