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My gaura is a hot mess!

Back in April, I put in a few Gaura lindheimeri plants in my very well drained, sandy, drought prone back garden hoping to have fountains of dainty white blooms weaving through my flower beds. Instead, I have giant floppy messes with dozens of flower stems each but only a total of 3-5 individual open flowers *total* per plant at any given time. It has been like this all summer.

I have never fertilized them, but they do get sprinkled with the hose occasionally since we have had no rain to speak of all summer until the last week. They are located in full all day sun. They grow out of control but barely any flowers.

Are these things likely to improve or should I just shovel prune them? Any ideas?

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