Ah it’s nice someone’s flowers are surviving. My Dahlias had their flower buds turn black and harden so that’s fun.
This heat is insane.
35c on Wednesday, so I’m scared, they get decent shade though, that entire bed is more or less N/S running.
Oh mines like NE/SW running and gets absolutely blasted with early morning sun and heat and then drags the mid afternoon sun for I think a bit too long. I have never seen droopier and sadder leaves.
Edit: and it’s been 34°+ for the last like 6 days with not an ounce of sky water.
I would say mine is maybe 15 degrees that way, but my house is to the east, so it’s gets shaded until about 9-10 when the sun crests the house, but the garden beds get the slit between the houses for a bit.
It’s now 1 and they are already partly shaded. That was the plan with the trees when we planted them 3 years ago, shade coverage, first few years was rough. Hostas DO NOT like full sun, at all.
Edit, I double checked my original picture, you can see the house shade just leaving on the bottom right actually.
Well thought through. I put dahlias and zinnias cause they both like sun and yet apparently there is a thing as too much.
My dahlias are doing great on my deck, lots of shade. I’ve tried twice growing hydrangeas in my lilie garden, and both times they failed. May have been technique, but the didn’t root, I just grabbed the plant and pulled it out like it was potted during spring cleanup.
Maybe not enough water? They like it pretty wet and also pretty cold. Probably a better idea to plant them in fall.
It’s probably the water, it’s full sun south side of the house full exposure after the sun crests, but it’s in the “window well” area , so any “standing” water would go down the weeping tile system.
Idk about your code where you are, but foundations have filtered corrugated pipe around its perimeter and they have risers that go up by each window that may have a well, so it doesn’t fill with water, and into the house if it can’t drain down to the foundation perimeter one fast enough.
Also my sad flowers.Looks great other than as you said a few dramatic plants, I don’t think I’ve seen one that perky and and deflated at the same time.
My dahlias, they aren’t perennial, and I think I’ve given up on ones that need their tubers pulled to winterize them in general. Unless there’s a few particular prize expensive ones or something I want to challange myself with, but dahlias are cheap.
First round of blooms.
