One of the great advantages of growing native plants is that they rarely need watering after the first year. Their roots need time to entwine themselves with the soil, then they are all set.
But after weeks of heat and drought, I watered the rain garden, the dragon, and areas around them: the dry stream bank, fern hill, pond hill, and dogwood hill. (Yes, that’s a lot of hills!)
According to my rain gauge, we’ve had 0.41″ of rain in a month since August 3, when we got 0.89″ of rain.
The temperature broke 90 degrees F for 20 days, half over 95 degrees. It rose to 100 yesterday. Forecasters say we will break 100 again today.
Next year should be even hotter because of the largest El Nino in 1000 years.
