The sunflowers grew to over 12 feet tall so I had to stake them using my dad's old paint ladder that I painted last year.
My garden was a bust this summer - drought conditions made it to where we just did not plant what I usually plant so as not to waste any water. Then again, is it a waste to water plants that bring joy to your life?
I still couldn't justify it especially when my friend lives in an unincorporated area that is in a severe water shortage due to poor management and her community is having to purchase water from my town.
We maintain what we have; training the lawn and the plants to drink less and so far they are surviving. Fortunately, most of our plants are drought lovers -
I've been a bit down this summer because I am not gardening like I should be.
This little sunflower broke off so I brought it inside and placed it in a vase and put the vase inside a pot that belonged to my niece. My cat likes to knock my flowers over and this way, it made it a bit harder for her.
I'll be glad when it's Autumn and we get some rain.
Such a drought is so hard to imagine, living here in New York State, where we get so much rain. We have well water, and turn on the hose at leisure, fill the pool, water the garden, wash the grass clippings off the sidewalk. I'm sorry you're dealing with this, but it's good you've adapted. Your sunflowers are beautiful!!!
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Drought for you and deluge for me. We got nearly four inches of rain in one hour Saturday. Over 100,000 without power - my kids house luckily has a generator as they are still without. In the last two weeks my rain bucket has collected about 7 inches of water. Everything growing like crazy but too buggy outside to do much cleanup unless you go out in the blazing 90 sun. This is just crazy.
ReplyDeleteDrought is horrible but you know that
ReplyDeleteWe have had very little rain as well and my flowers and garden are showing the lack.
ReplyDeleteYour sunflowers got so tall!!! Beautiful though.
God bless.