heat
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: heat
- From: N* L*
- Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 23:18:47 CDT
Lovely weather we're having...last night on the news, the weatherperson
informed us that the 111 degree day was a new record, and that we'd had
slightly over 1/2 inch of rain in the past 2 months. Great :-(
Anyway, I thought I'd like to share some of my successes/failures during
this toasty summer, and I'd like to hear what some other folks grow
successfully during desert conditions...
Right now, the best looking plants in my garden include: garden phlox (Mt.
Fuji), pineapple sage, loropetalum chinensis, purple heart (can't recall the
botanical name at the moment), tricyrtis hirta (?), rue, ginger, night
blooming jasmine, and a chrysanthemum that has been in bloom since June.
I've officially lost the buddlea "black knight" that I planted this spring,
and the polemonium and adenophora grown from seed this year. Even the
echinacea purpurea looks pretty bad, my roses are mostly bare stems, and my
sunflowers (annual) died a month or so ago. Several other things are just
holding on. Heck, I've even lost a couple of tansy plants; I didn't think
anything would kill them! But, gotta love that phlox, looking so crisp and
white in the midst of all the crispy and brown.
To those other folks in similar climates: what has done well for you that I
should try?
Thanks,
Nancy Lowe
Arkansas, zone 7 (only s'posed to be 104 tomorrow--a cold front!)
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