Re: No Summer Water

Wow, Diane, your list goes to show the difference in overall precipitation between north and south. I am an hour north of the Mexican border and I've never been able to keep Lobelia tupa going in my garden - it is just too dry.
Several of the plants you list I don't grow at all but and some others you have in flower now are dormant or heading into dormancy in my garden: 


Lithodora,



Acanthus spinosus,
Allium flavum
Eschscholzia californica,



Nan


On Jul 26, 2008, at 11:06 AM, Diane Whitehead wrote:
I have a couple of areas that receive no summer water. Usually they start the summer with soil damp from winter and spring rain, but this spring was drier than usual and a few plants that usually look fine look dead. 

Shrivelled or totally dry leaves:
Thymus Spicy Orange,
Helleborus x hybridus,
Paeonia mascula, P. caucasica,
Salvia arizonicus

Leaves looking good:
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi,
Brachyglottis greyi,
several Cistus,
Lithodora,
Euphorbia characias,
Teucrium fruticans

In flower now, looking good:
Acanthus spinosus,
Allium flavum,
Castilleja,
Epilobium (fireweed),
Erysimum 'Bowles Mauve',
Eschscholzia californica,
Grindelia (a seashore local native with intricate gummy buds and bright yellow daisy flowers ), 
several lavenders,
Lobelia tupa - (much smaller than it is when watered),
Lotus corniculatus ( also naturalized along our highways),
Lychnis coronaria,
Malva moschata,
Pelargonium quercifolium ( a hardy South African),
several penstemons,
Spartium junceum,
Stachys byzantina
Verbascum dumulosum

one self-sown snapdragon is looking great, but a second one is not.

Diane Whitehead
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
maritime zone 8, cool Mediterranean climate
mild rainy winters, mild dry summers
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