Hot Pink

Hot, no rain.  There are brown patches on the lawn although we are sprinkling every night.  Sprinklers don't reach the back of Meadow's Edge, and when I looked last night, the turtlehead was limp, the thimbleweed anemone was also limp, and the Miss Manners physostegia were flopped over, looking sparse.

The river birch has dropped a ton of leaves and is yellowing.

I watered.  It's not as bad as the terrible heat and dry weather last year, but it feels similar.  Waiting, waiting for rain, plants going limp or brown, leaves dropping.  And in one week the Wildflower Society will be here.  But they need a minimum number to hold the class and I don't think they'll get enough to sign up.  (Probably will cancel.  I will be relieved.)

Guess who likes the hot dry conditions?  Hot pink sedums and hot pink gauras along the front walk.

I was quite surprised that the gaura even came back this year.  It is dropping its delicate pink blooms all over the heath, and it makes it look like the heath has tiny pink flowers!

I bought a canna lily at Wade's called 'Australia'.  It needs a bigger, more dramatic pot.

Good grief.