tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2891478286629018612.post9172698411748779267..comments2024-03-14T14:32:56.802-05:00Comments on Garden Musings: July Drive-ByProfessorRoushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17827625019371233145noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2891478286629018612.post-39288582361764566962016-08-15T14:52:57.067-05:002016-08-15T14:52:57.067-05:00May I comment twice? Been thinking about your gar...May I comment twice? Been thinking about your garden a lot. Third big flush of blooms perfectly coinciding with our third extreme heat wave. You are not alone. Gardeners around the country, even abroad, feel their gardens are hopeless this year. I have a window of 30 minutes before dark when the temps are almost tolerable to try to get the remainder of my new roses in the ground. Only a handful left to plant, but I fear every one will succumb before noon the next day. I'm beginning to want trees. Lots of trees. Anniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07932052972867806872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2891478286629018612.post-77473752214613883892016-08-02T22:12:50.460-05:002016-08-02T22:12:50.460-05:00Oh, that sounds soooo familiar. While I miss the ...Oh, that sounds soooo familiar. While I miss the prairie vistas and my lush, wildlife filled landscape, I do NOT miss the "feast or famine" rain/drought cycles and the dry, windy heat. Down here in the Florida panhandle, we are struggling to acclimatize to never-ending humid heat, VERY sandy soil, and lots of mosquitoes, at least some potentially carrying Zika. I guess you just can't satisfy gardeners, can you?! Stay strong. This, too, shall pass.Gaia Gardener:https://www.blogger.com/profile/00692281131036600613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2891478286629018612.post-9847851042548525282016-08-01T13:14:53.167-05:002016-08-01T13:14:53.167-05:00We had similar weather for the summer here. A wet ...We had similar weather for the summer here. A wet Spring was followed by a very dry May, June, and most of July. I was dutifully watering my two flower patches until I was out of town for half of July visiting family and attending a workshop on Archives. While I was down south, we got some three inches of rain which revitalized some of my flowers. However, those that have survived the deer attacks, heat, and lack of rain and now being devoured by an onslaught of Japanese beetles, especially my rose blooms. You just can't win in Kansas.Br. PlacidusKShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02411198696659419547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2891478286629018612.post-27722288851434138532016-07-31T21:55:57.160-05:002016-07-31T21:55:57.160-05:00Every word in this post resonates with me. First ...Every word in this post resonates with me. First year with deer fencing, and my roses were astonishingly beautiful and loaded with buds and I was bursting with anticipation when our first scorching, blistering heat wave hit. Buds dried up and fell off the bushes. Blooms looked like pink potato chips and fell within minutes after opening. With a little rain and weather more normal to this region, they recovered and set a second flush of buds just before our second scorcher hit. It was too depressing to go outside to survey the garden. I just considered it all lost. However, I now know which roses are survivors and can stand the heat. Not many, actually. There's time for one more flush of blooms if the weather will just give us a break. Anniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07932052972867806872noreply@blogger.com