What's Bloomin' & What's Crispin'

With the weather being so hot, many of my plants are crisping in the heat. It's a very sad sight. The forsythia is turning brown around the edges...

While the astilbe didn't flower because it fried instead. Sigh.

In other news, the yellow loosestrife is doing wonderfully...

And the echinacea (cone flowers) are doing wonderfully. These are the "Pow Wow" variety, so they are actually pink rather than purple. Did you know these are actually related to daisies? No wonder I like them so much.

I guess this is a lesson in water consciousness. I need to move those sad plants that need lots of water to places that actually get lots of water. Or increase their watering time - these all do have their very own water spouts from the irrigation lines that Doug put in.