Hope you don't mind if I join in here instead of starting a new post. I just love this time of year to see what these do or how they change their minds and do as they please. Oh I just don't want to break the link, #1 Sang has just 'Y' (Possible vulc?) #2 Our Mom Sang took off like crazy already 2 foot taller than what it was when put in the brug house, she is 2 years old and no signs of a 'Y' #3 & 6 cuttings off our mom plant. #4 Sport off B. TNN's reverse variegated above the 'y' #5,7 & 8 B. Amarillo Paja, I had never noticed that it was that ruffled before?

The vapor that comes from our propane fueled furnace is quite acidic which might be one reason that yours might damage the metal of the generator. Ours runs year-round since it is the hot water (runs both the hot water and the heat for the house). I am not sure if it's the heat or the acidity, but it does kill the grass by the vent pipe (~3' stretch) as well as having damaged the cementaceous siding that was nearby. If I were you, I would dig up a chunk from the side of the shrub to transplant as well as trying to start cuttings so that hopefully one or the other survives. Depending on your fuel and how the vapor dissipates, it may or may not kill the hydrangea, but I am fairly sure that it will damage it.

Jay, I'm sorry to hear that drift has hit your plants. It is frustrating that other folks are not careful with their use of chemicals. I only got hit twice this year, and most everything recovered. I think that only two tomato plants did not. For here, that's not a bad year (so far). It helps that we have heavy woodland to our north, west and south so we only ever get drift from the east or part of the southeast. You know, it is bad enough that we have Round-up Ready Crops and the huge usage of glyphosate that accompanies them, but now there's similar dicamba-tolerant crops, called Xtend that tolerate a new formulation of dicamba. I've been following that development carefully. All I can think about when I read about stuff like this is that now there's another herbicide that will volatize and drift and get our garden plants, and that there now will appear, eventually, dicamba-tolerant weeds just like we now have glyphosate-tolerant weeds. I worry that eventually it will become impossible for home gardeners and organic farmers to grow anything because the widespread usage of herbicides will just kill our plants. There's also a huge issue with farmers using the older (cheaper) form of dicamba, a violation of the label, with their new dicamba-tolerant crops instead of the newer formulation, which is a huge no-no because the older form volatizes and drifts much more easily. I saw a report about a week ago about all the dicamba violation issues being reported in various states (I don't think there were any yet in OK or KS) and there were huge numbers of cases under investigation. I feel pretty fortunate that no one actually farms close enough to me for any kind of GMO herbicide-tolerant crop to be an issue, so all I have to worry about is ranchers spraying their pastures and fencelines for broadleaf weeds, or utility, railroad or utility workers doing the same. That means our likeliest time for herbicide drift here mainly is in the April-May timeframe. By June it is hot and I guess no one is as concerned about weeds by then, as they're usually already cutting hay and stuff and are beyond the herbicide stage by then. Where does it end? There's already been people on the OK garden-related facebook pages the last couple of years saying that they no longer even grow tomato plants because they got tired of losing them to drift every single year. I assume they are close enough to commercial farms that they've given up hope of being drift-free. Dawn

Oh, man! Late frosts will do that to you. If you hear late frost warnings from the weather service, take action and water deeply the night before. Gee, I feel weird saying that though, Kelsey. We have been hitting the low 90s for highs lately! From someone who spent the day pulling weeds, sweating, inhaling pollen and is now sneezing -Kerchoo!- big time, enjoy those cool evening temperatures and send unused cold temps this way! ;o)) Ha! The plant will now decide which leaves to brown out completely and where to develop new foliage. It may take 2-4 weeks or so though. Just maintain the soil as evenly moist as you can. When the flower buds open (they look like small broccoli heads), if you see brown areas, that means that those parts got zapped by the frost too.