OT- rain and rocks

In a message dated 6/15/00 11:59:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
dsjohn@ruraltel.net writes:

<< Hope this helps...I do water the garden, but these plants have
 survived my brown thumb. We've had an inch of rain since
 March...they say it's the driest May since 1927...hot and
 windy...I haven't seeded or planted anything new since May just
 because of the hot, dry, windy weather this year. >>

Sharon,

Did you have winter rain or snow melt?  We had three years of virtually no 
rain in the summer growing season in NYS.  This spring, around the first of 
May, the rain started and has not stopped.  During the dry summers, and we do 
not have summer here yet, poppies were one of the best plants, both annual 
and perennial.  It would seem a good idea to learn both drought tolerant 
plants as well as more thirsty border plants.  Stachys in five or six forms 
flourishes in dry poor soils, also brooms when you can find the smaller ones. 
Additionally, adding rock in natural looking designs helps the garden look 
good while being baked by the sun and wind.

The weather extremes may have always been with us but I do not seem to 
remember months and months of drought, now months and months of rain and 
gloomy weather.  One storm last week produced four inches of rain.  For 
sometime we had been learning to garden without the rain, now the opposite.

Claire Peplowski
East Nassau, Ny z4

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