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I think you have 10 green thumbs. lol. I would have them if it didn't get so hot and dry in the summer. When summer hits I am done planting and watering til fall. Plants are on their own for the most part. They actually like it like that sometimes too. lol
It gets hot and dry here, too, but not as humid as you. Last summer was awful out there in MO. Do you grow Xeric, or what, as you say you do not water?
Kenton
I have wildflowers, daylilies, irises, perennial sweet pea, clematis, astilbe and a bunch of others. Once they are established then I water in the spring til it gets too hot to really mess with it. I let them go and they do ok. This past summer I watered quite a bit but it didn't make much of a difference so I quit til fall. The ground gets hard as a rock and it only takes minutes for the ground to dry after a good watering so I just gave up on summer watering. About the time I start thinking of watering again it rains and they perk up. lol.
Do you use liberal thicknesses of mulch? Your plants are the sort to tolerate some summer drought, too. I grow far too many things that don't belong in the desert to slip up on watering.
