misc summer notes

In a message dated 6/28/02 1:38:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Meum71@aol.com 
writes:

<< The Daylilies look very large this year-so they have loved all the rain 
and 
 it looks to be a very good year for them, I am excited about all the new 
ones 
 I got last year and expect it to be a good year in regard to daylily sales.  
 >>

Good luck, Paul, on your selling season.  If you are as we are, you have 
great big plants from this rain.  And, if stops for a few minutes, you might 
find some customers to sell them to.  My niece has told me that customers do 
not like picking out plants while getting wet.  They do mostly shrubbery.

Frank Cooper mentioned this being the difficult season for alpines. I have a 
grey wooly one dead at the base already because I did not put them under some 
shelter. I picked up one rotted off completely.  For anyone else trying them, 
mulch with pebbles or grit.  It helps.  They have to be  put under the house 
overhang or into rocks planted sideways which most people think a bit dumb 
but it works.  I have the lewisias, which are blooming exceptionally this 
year, planted that way and have finally stopped losing them.

And for Bill, as for this rain, you can have some of mine if you find a way 
to claim it.  It has rained, hard showers between sunny periods four or five 
times today and every past day that I can think of as well.  I just looked at 
the weather line on AOL and AOL says that it will rain only one day this 
week.  They are already wrong as today has been a soaker.

One should not complain, I suppose, as I have clear memories of the three 
drought years when it did not rain here, those three summers.  It is 
discouraging to a gardener either way, too much or too little rain.  I had my 
hair cut today so I knew it would rain some more, sort of like washing the 
car.

Paul and I will send you some rain, Bill, we will will it to you and fix up 
your drought as we sure can spare some.

Yes- the nepeta - clouds of blue this year.  Who would have thought a lot of 
rain would help them.  They are thought of generally as xeric plants.  There 
are also great bunches of foxgloves, one million poppies seedlings and some 
blooming, some especially good bloom we do not usually see here and there.  I 
would guess the winter here with no below zero weather.  I am astonished at 
some of my plantings this year.  However, it could stop raining. <VBG>

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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