Everything is tired and dry - much in need of fall deadheading. The few things that are still blooming are struggling to exist on my twice-a-week watering and the few select rain drops that fall sporadically. There are bright spots - I guess, literally. After the first bout of record-breaking weather, I drastically cut back the hydrangeas and garden phlox. With heavy watering both have rebounded with a second flush of smaller blooms. A few yarrow are blooming again and a lavendar that has never bloomed before - so that's a nice surprise. But overall the plants look terrible.The other hopeful sign is that the crepe myrtles are blooming and the clethera is in bud, so perhaps pictures soon from them.
