Hail is a phenomenon that can make your witness how your plants and home landscape is destroyed in minutes. It is disheartening and sometimes it takes a long time to redesign everything as it was before the storm.
Here are the most common ways hail might damage your home landscape.
Tree damage
Hail may shake the branches ripping down the bark, leaves and fruits and even knocking some branches to the ground, if the hail stones are large in diameter.
Once the storm is over, you must prune broken branches (broken, not defoliated!), but allow the remaining leaves to stay on the tree, even if they are shredded, because they will help its recovery. The process of growing new leaves may take quite a long time, but it will happen eventually, so be patient. Tree branches can also damage your roofing, it that is the case call a professional roofing East Lansing expert right away.
You must also water your trees over the next few weeks so that drought does not stress them even more.
Damage to flowers and decorative plants
These can be shredded in seconds, but most of them still have the chance to regrow from their crown if you allow them. They may look unsightly for a while and your landscape will surely be affected, however, the nature`s regenerative power is amazing, so you should give your flowers a chance, especially if hail affected less than 50% of their surface. If you also notice flowers and decorative plants knocked to death by hail, just remove them and replace them one way or another.
