Re: Still trying to love drought

Ben - does lavender keep on blooming in California, or anywhere else? Mine is blooming now, but that will be it for the year. I've never had it bloom a second time. Ana Luisa, a hybrid of lanata, is blooming and looks good. One L. stoechas looks good but some others are rather shrivelled, especially the white one that has finished flowering.
Thyme has finished flowering and the leaves are dry and shrivelled as usual in the summer.
The plants that look good here without being watered are mostly shrubs and trees - yew, pine, arbutus, grevillea, cistus, teucrium. There are a couple of perennials that are flowering and looking good - Verbascum dumulosum, fireweed, and Acanthus spinosus. Euphorbia characias and Lithodora have finished flowering, but still have good- looking foliage.
These are in an unwatered area. I water the vegetables and rhododendron beds. It gets dry even in the watered areas, though. I just dug a hole as deep as I could to see when I would get to moisture, but it was dry as far as I could dig. This was a bit discouraging, though I just started watering this week. 

Diane Whitehead
Victoria British Columbia, Canada
maritime zone 8 - mild dry summers, mild wet winters, sandy soil
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