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Re: august hard month

On Thu, 21 Aug 1997 10:15:58 -0700 John & Pat Adney <jga@fyiowa.infi.net>
writes:
>Greetings from East Central Iowa:
>
>What's blooming in my garden in August, you ask? More important >than
the blooms is the fact that our nearly 2-month drought has >ended.
There's almost adequate moisture now, temperatures are >cooler and its
great to be in the garden.

Hello Mr. Adney - always so interesting to see variations within zones. 
We, also zone 5, are on track for the wettest summer on record.  One day
in June we had 10 inches of rain in 24 hours . . . . . . 

It's also been unseasonably cool - my monarda is full of mildew, but most
everything else is doing okay.  This particular August brought a
profusion of black-eyed susans (rudbeckia) as well as purple coneflowers
and lambs ears.  My tiger lilies are just done blooming, as are my blue
flax and ox eye daisies.  My delphiniums are fabulous, but short -lived
do to beating by rain.

I do so enjoy this list.
Lena
Lena36@juno.com
Zone 5 SE Wisconsin 20 miles from Lake Michigan
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