Its HOT! August in Oklahoma
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Comments (14)Jeff, I miss your beautiful flowers and photos!!!! I keep checking back at the Rose Gallery for your latest, but can't find you alas! I want to stalk again, hee-hee! maryl, I had to laugh, because I too am a midnight owl person, yet still! dragged myself out of bed at 6:00 a.m. in the morning with only 3 hours of sleep, but by 7:45 a.m. I had to stop working in the garden because it was getting to be way too muggy even then! So I crawled back to bed to take a brief snooze...By the time I woke up again, I felt as though I had been hit by a train. I was so groggy and tired. And I still tortured myself with 5 minutes-at-a-time deadheading and checking out my flowers leaves and herbs, then racing back to the shelter of my house...Poor Eluane, she's got long fur, but because she is a busy-body sheepherding Border Collie, she always wants to check up on what I'm doing...she's even more of a masochist than her Mama! and will follow me faithfully out to the garden Every Single Time. And for the rest of our week it will be: 98, 97, 96,97,95 and hurray, a breakthrough turning point of ...91 on Sunday...But I'm sure 91 is nothing compared to the 100s of late July that I'm expecting....See MoreHow hot is Cedar Mtn, south of Brevard, in August?
Comments (4)we camped there arbout 4 or 6 yrs back in august. it's quite nice. cools down at night, and does get hot during the day, but not terrible. be sure to ck out dupont forest, which is very close by and is free. it has gotten very busy on the weekends, so try and go during the week for some peace. has some 8 or more waterfalls. nice paths, and 4 of them are in an easy walking distance of the parking lot. if yo're willing to hike more, be sure to ck out bridal veil falls- you can walk behind it, and it's on a huge slab of rock you walk up to get to it. you have to see it to understand. some are from the last of the mohicans movie (bridal veil and triple falls). also be sure to ck out 'pretty place'. it's an open air stone & wood chapel at the top of a nearby mountain right on a cliff face. just beyond a ymca camp- ask anyone local and they can tell you. stunning. ceasar's head park in sc is very nice, too. have fun! we love that area....See MoreNew pips in hot hot August?
Comments (15)Since I had already treated several of my problems with various brews, I sent a chunk of Striptease and a piece of September Sun to A&M. They said they needed something that had not been treated. Those were in the early stages. One had the "orangey" stain and the other had the white mold. I sent a big chunk of soil with each as well. Then I drenched everything with that Bayer product that showed any symptoms or had been treated with a different method (I've done bleach baths and hot water on several earlier this summer. What I've noticed that I have not mentioned is the pot. I posted it to the container forum but did not get an answer. I think this is related. I've washed and bleached all the pots as they have been emptied and their contents trashed. I just wish I knew what it is or how it's spread and is it the same thing I had at the first of the season? (Brown dried up roots) The sample I sent to A&M earlier this year was from OBL. It, Francee and Paradigm had the same problem (and maybe several others). A&M said Root knot nematodes. Bill Meyer said root rot, judging from my photos. I was tossing OBL a few weeks after re-potting , as it was continuing to go downhill. I pulled it out of the trash, bagged it up ans sent it to the lab. ( Maybe I washed away most of the fungi when I repottted ir?) Then, Bruce Banyai said what we're seeing is August blight and bleach it. Of course, bleaching a hosta in Texas in August is probably a death sentence. I have no clue if it's being spread by an insect, falling out of the pecan trees, came in the potting soil or is in the mulch in the beds. If I buy new hosta, will they get it, too? Maybe I'll get a better answer this time. bk...See MoreMore August here, still hot and smokey.
Comments (14)Ingrid, Rozanne is great here but the blue in the photo is "Bonny Blue" aster. This wood fence area is cooler and plants seem to do fine on both East and West facing sides so far. I do have a hebe facing East that looks terrible. That maybe should have been in shade here. I have a couple in shady spots doing well. It will be interesting to see what happens over the years with the Teas in different areas here. I think you'd like this aster which is very charming and tidy. Rozanne gets huge here, and I really love it. I have some in this fence garden that should be more obvious as time goes by. Yes, the drip irrigation is needed on almost everything....See MoreUser
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