So Dry

No rain for over a week and high temperatures.  It's been 9 days since we got four tenths of an inch, and before that only traces.  The aquifers are full from all the rain in May and June, so we are not in any kind of drought.  But the lack of rain for so long now has made everything crispy in the garden.

The birch trees, as always, are the first trees to show the stress.  They are droopy and dropping yellow leaves.  The climbing hydrangea looked brown and wilted in the hot dry afternoon sun.  Bad location for it next to the driveway in afternoon sun.

Annuals and some newly planted perennials look awful.  I water as much as I can, but it's never enough.

This is getting to be just like last summer's horrid dry spell.  It's hard to enjoy the garden when it looks so bad, is stressed, and takes so much work.  And the trees on the back hill get nothing.