Temp ranges/Doing well
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Temp ranges/Doing well
- From: A* L* <a*@ameritech.net>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 08:15:22 -0700
I dunno, Joanie - we're 5 blocks from Lake Michigan and it's pretty
horrific here too - stifling humidity & heat (though we usually are
5 degrees cooler than Naperville, where my daughter lives). Where are
you? We did get an inch of rain last night, so that will help us
through the next few awful days.
On the topic of what has been doing well without water this year --
Lilies! This has been the best lily year ever, here. We've had
lilies of different kinds in bloom since May, with two clumps of
orientals yet to go. The orientals & trumpets are earlier this year,
because of the heat, I imagine. One thing about the heat & humidity
is that the fragrance is enhanced -- lily perfumes float all over the
yard. Very nice at night. Stokesia is also doing well, still blooming
after 4 weeks, along with dahlias, daylilies, hostas, grasses,
coreopsis,
monarda, phlox, balloon flower, rudbeckia, echinacea, liatris, nepeta,
the herbs, and tropicals in pots. Some clumps of both the red & blue
perennial lobelia are beginning to bloom - they've done surprisingly
well with the heat, but I have kept them fairly moist.
Anne - Chicago
(near Wrigley Field)
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