Question
We have just bought a house in Florida and have no experience caring for plants.  We have just had several days of Tropical storm Fay, and now have several problems with our plants.  The two biggest are these: the hibiscus, which was very established, was broken by the wind.  It was about four feet tall, and the main trunk broke at about a foot from the ground.   Can I mend it somehow?  I'm afraid it's lost.  

Also, we have a flowering shrub that after several days of heavy rain looks like it might have leaf rot.  It was fine a couple of days ago before it started raining so hard, and now it's got black edges on many leaves and some of the leaves are missing pieces around the edge.  What can I do?  I would get to the nursery to ask questions but they are closed until the storm passes.  There's really not much I can do until probably the weekend.  I'm sorry I can't tell you what kind of plant this one is, it has small yellow flowers, and appears to have string-bean like seed pods.  I don't think it's yellow alamanda, we do have that also (which was blown over and beat up by the storm).  Please help!

Answer
Hi Kim...trim away the broken part, the plant should heal itself where it was broken and eventually new branches will come out.

When you see black on the leaves I would have to say it is drowning.  If you could somehow drain the water away from the plant it would help a lot.