glib, while the article was published in, and by, Politico they were not the source of the information. The researcher was studying for his PhD at the University of Arizona Although the article was written by someone employed by Politico. To summarily dismiss what is in the article indicates a closed mind.

If it is exposed to dry hot winds, you could try planting around it to shelter it a little. Yes mulching and watering are good. Grevillea species like full sun generally to flower well but the umbrella suggested would be a good temporary solution. Of course, you could put it up every year during the hottest periods. Long term, maybe you could try growing close to a shady tree so it gets a little shade. Otherwise there are chemical spray products useful for both frost and heat protection. One that I have heard of is called Envy.

This has never happened before. I'm in central Indiana. A frog came out on February 1st. It was close to 60F here yesterday and upper 50's today. On the good side, I was able to change the pump filter and exchange a little bit of the water. But still.......I want the old winters back. It will be freezing in a couple of days, so I hope the frog does okay. There's lots of gunk in the bottom of my stock tank water garden, so hopefully he/she will be okay.

You know this “change” we’re starting to go thru-and let me be clear-starting to go thru. We shouldn’t be looking to blame. To point fingers at an blame. This is about what we can do to survive it. Water, you know having Rain water storage spoiled me. Lost 250gal Rain water to a loose hose. Had to use city water for the first time in ten years. Better believe I figured out something better. That was one of those times they say makes you grow hair on your chest or pull it off your head. But hey that’s why we’re out here, well not yet it’s still too hot. Water, you know having Rain water storage spoiled me. Dropping that hose schooled me. If I didn’t have that water connection those trees would have dried up. All that fruit, hell even the plum tree is full of fruit. Yeah, the trees that are in my system would have been fine for months. But the one’s in media. As the vast number of them are. That would have been the suffering or loss of more that 65 different fruit trees. Right now things are going fine for me. But what if I really depended on that food this year. Didn’t have that expensive water connection. I can breathe a sigh tho because it rained today. All the trees are soaked and my tanks are refilling with another storm predicted Friday. All’s right with the world again. But that hiccup. Time to make the change over to the system complete. Time to see about another $500 to buy more trees. More water storage. With what I saw those four weeks there wasn’t any rain showed me the short coming of what I was actually doing, prepared for. Water that I took for granted, it was free from the sky, the life blood of everything I grow stopped. Four weeks it stopped. Of course I see a Youtube on the drying west. Their tearing out trees and putting plants that require less water. Tearing your trees out because they consume too much water. Is that the kind of decision I have to make and I mean in the next year or two. I don’t think I’ll have longer than that. I’m telling myself that I’ll have four trees where one is now. The more I think on it the more agreeable it becomes. Even if I do it with these half barrels which I think is better, could even make 5gal inserts with a 30gal container. This has all gotten very interesting in a short period of time and I should take MYSELF seriously. Plants in medium aren’t going to work because the moisture evaporation is against that. Hydroponics is even worse shape. Wanna bet in five, no three years hydroponics is outlawed. Those bulk chemicals mined from some where else-that’s going behind the counter at pharmacies and you won’t be able to get anything but an ounce. Change is already here the starting gun has been fired. Did you miss it?