besides us.. who is looking at hosta in august ... there is a reason all the hosta shows are in june ... anyway.. heat .. sun and water tolerance is a function of a well established clump ... and at 2 years.. these arent.. so it not all that surprising ... and of course.. ma nature has been a witch this season.. so what can you do about it.. other than bitch ... lastly.. new leaves come out accustomed to the weather as it is when they emerge.. so they should look good the rest of the year .. if they didnt releaf.. they would be in summer dormancy.. and that isnt good at root growing time ... after a week of high heat and humidity ... it fell into the 50s last night.. it feels like a fall day out there today ... i can dream it will lasts .... but we all know it wont ... oh well ken

" During the spin cycles it shook so violently that it started "walking." I had to push on it/hold it during the spin so it would not walk off the pad." I have not had this happen in two years of owning our SQ FL. I know nothing about installation because our vendor always installs for us. Our machine recently made some really loud noises when the load was unbalanced --- only two items: a heavy looped cotton bath mat & toilet mat on the spin cycle. I knew better, but had a senior moment when I ran that load with just two pieces. But the machine didn't move or walk (and IKWYM about "walking"....old top load machines would do that, too) I paused the machine to add a terrycloth towel to provide more weight distribution for balance, and then the machine was happy.

My Shumard oak had every bit of new foliage fried by a mid-May frost couple yrs ago. I thought it was dead because nothing happened for weeks. Then it did resprout, tho the foliage was scant. There was also alot of twig damage from that, and those twigs died.

Rosaprimula, Eragrostis spectabils/purple love grass is a stunning plant in the fall and grows wild in my back field and along the edges of roads where there is poor sandy soil. The edges of the highways and my field just glow, especially in late day sun, in August. Their seed dispersal mechanism is sort of like tumbleweed ; the flowering stems break off when the seeds are ripe, and roll along in the breeze shedding seeds as they go. So if you cut off the seed heads, it will have to be as they are starting to fade and you will need to gather them and bury them somehow to prevent them taking off across the allotment on the next breezy day. I don’t have any Andropogon, but I do have Schizachyrium scoparium/little bluestem. It has lovely bluegreen foliage all season with occasional pops of red/gold/orange and takes on more color late season plus has attractive fall seedheads. It is tough enough to stand up to the first few light snows. There two grasses grow well together. I am most likely to use grasses in wild prairie or meadow conditions. I use grass-like plants in garden beds, but because I have serious grass allergies I don’t use actual grasses where I might have skin contact in maintaining garden beds, so I do not know how much of an issue either of these are in gardens. I do have to remove the Eragrostis from my gravel driveway and veggie garden, so the seedheads do travel quite a distance. I do not use nonnative grasses because I am worried about invasiveness.