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Those are tough plants...should be fine.

Update, they seem to have recovered frm deaths door and perked up. Some crispy leaves and maybe damaged stems but not fatal. Would have been so annoyed if I lost them because they were not discounted but were surrounded by discounted plants in pots on same pavers that were not affected.

I have put Plants in this spot before with no problems but this heat wave is unprecedented. I do plan on planting later this week, not in fall.

You know, it's already been 10 days since your original post. After this long, anything that is alive is going to live, anything dead is already dead. I would just trim off anything that is obviously dead, and leave any live tissue to help feed the root system for next year.

Thanks, denninmi. That's a pretty pragmatic response :-)Will do.

I pulled his card a while back, but may have to reissue it after I saw all the fireworks he bought for next weekend. Loss of limb automatically renews his card for two years.

He even cut all his hostas to the ground.....

Oh man...even one of those spiral shrubs....

Each fall I run the mower over the top of my daylilies so they will get a total clean out then. A few weeks ago or more I sprayed them with ammonia solution and it seemed to stop the spread. I am sure it was just coincidence/timing but I too believe what ever it was is no longer spreading. I did read what you quoted, after I posted. Now we wait and see I guess. I really do not need something new to fight in my gardens!!
I love box elder bugs. My wedding day in October was unusually warm and the side of the church was covered!

In my earlier post here... I was sad about my grandmother's daylilies I have, foliage dying and not blooming this year. Great news! They are growing new foliage now! I was so worried they were goners!

Hmmmm. I just bought Nicky a couple hours ago, It's dark and I hope the fading isn't as bad as what you are seeing. Actually it was 90F when I bought it, full sun and the blooms are really nice. I had a weak moment and took it with me. I want to rip up most of my other plants and just plant phlox.

This is Phlox Border Gem, better than Nicky(it can stand on its own). Can you see the flower on the right side of the Helianthus? They all get like this on Nicky in full sun, that was one of the reasons why I sent it to the Big Garden in the skies(the other reason was flopping around all over the place after strong rain/wind).

Thank you

buyorsell888 - what beautiful gardens you have. What is the healthy grass clump at about 3:00 in the first picture?
Jan

I had many lovely Foxgloves this spring, and they have all either been pulled or are cut down to about 6-12 inches and completely deadheaded. I leave only a few seedpods to collect seed from certain plants. I'm hoping a few will come back for a 3rd year, but they are pretty rusty and crappy looking. I start new plants from seed every year and plant the seedlings in a few gardens to hopefully get some good plants the next Spring.

Sometimes when they are flowering I remove the lower seedpods while they are still green, so the plant will put it's energy into flowering.

When they get real tall and lanky they look weird, and I would cut them down even sooner, but the bumblebees just love the blooms! Here's one patch starting to bloom -

I cut the entire stalks off to almost ground level and shake the seeds where I might want more plants.

weekendweeder, to be absolutely sure of your sun/shade situation, you should make a 'sun map'. Using a piece of graph paper draw a roung sketch of your bed. Then, one sunny day, go out every hour on the hour, starting from early in the morning until the sun sets and mark down exactly what parts of the bed are in sun, shade and in-between. You'll probably be surprised.

Last year I planted a 30 foot long bed. The far end of it is next to a mature Japanese maple. To my surprise, the end was not in constant shade and actually got afternoon sun for a good two - three hours per day. It definitely impacted my plant choices.

That is a really great idea, a2zmom. Do you do that in both spring and summer? What month would you recommend I try this?

I think I will relocate this BW come the fall and replace it with nothing as the surrounding plants really could use the free space.

I wish I was that disciplined. If I see an inch of space, I plant something. Currently I have a bunch of plants that are being overrun and need to be moved as a result.

a2zmom you selectively quoted me i.e. I said "as much as it pains me"!

I so enjoy researching my plant purchases and the act of planting but as of right now, as of this day I have no more room for any additional plants. I am sad, as what in part keeps me going through the winter is mulling over any plants 'to be'.

Same here, I shear back and get more booms late summer

I rarely dead head my established coreopis ('Cosmic Eye') and the blooms keep coming till frost. Even if more blooms would result from a complete shearing there is no way it would compensate for the duration without any flowers. It is summer and I want flowers now and continuing.

This is exactly what I have posted w/ album (I forgot to chk privacy box) just this AM. So it is a form of virus ~ geez what's going on w/ plants.

I too thought as aachenelf ~ but called it forest on top of DD in green ~ *expectacular* indeed! I'm not terribly upset but miss my P-Cone Faeries this year! I can believe about plant hoppers carrying the virus we are going thru another year of Jap Beetle-plague!!!

Thanks for the Aster Yellows link, aachenelf!!!

Guess what ~ this aster yellow infected DD P-Cone blooms do look stunning in a strange way ~ I couldn't help but saved a few for the vase indoors since I no longer in-door garden (only have a few orchids) I don't have to fear spreading (fingers XX'd).

Thanks, everyone, for the suggestions. I filled the hole in with compost and bagged topsoil, since my husband had already spread the gravelly clay that we dug out in various places in the yard. I'll take your advice and pile it up high with bagged garden soil and compost before planting. At least it's a pretty tiny area and not right up against the house, so it's not going to cause our house to collapse ... I hope. Has anybody ever used a product called Claybuster? They sell it at the garden centers around here. I haven't tried it - supposedly it contains gypsum, which breaks up the clay.

I'm new to all of this gardening stuff but... put the gravel back ASAP. Don't mess with it particularly because its so close to the house. If one day the owner came by and saw it and down the road there was a problem with the foundation in ANY way, they could easily say it was never there until you made your garden. The likelihood of whether ANY of that could happen is irrelevant... don't put yourself in the position to have to be on the defense.

Walmart has HUGE plastic planters (24" dia, 2.5' high or so) link is below. I have two in red (they have red, tan and green) with annuals and perennials and I love them. I filled the bottom with rubber mulch so I wouldn't have to fill them all with dirt and keep them light (drilled holes, too). They're perfect for me this year - new house with lots of garden maintenance but 3 dogs...

Here is a link that might be useful: walmart planter

A few years ago some catalog/online grower sold "tricolored" BB bushes-that were actually 3 bushes grown every close together. I imagine that they should be fine.

Just keep an eye on the violet one. It may be a seedling that sprouted alongside the pink and might grow taller and more vigorously than the pink one, eventually crowding it out. Most of the run of the mill buddleia seedlings are that violet color. Still a good two for one deal though!