All Is Not Lost...But

Yeppper, the lawn is gone. It's either lack of water because I did ignore it the last four weeks and only about one inch of rain fell, or it's just plain stagnant air that creates disease. It wasn't this bad last year. Plenty of  90 degree plus days this summer.

What were once Shasta Daisies...

This thing finally took off and a blue Morning Glory flower appeared the other morning. Strangely it flowered until the evening unlike the others that peter out about 11AM.

I don't know how these Columbines are going to make it. About 6-8 weeks to the first frost. I started some from seed back on May 7 and finally let them loose about three weeks ago. Still so fragile. Left of screen...

Zinnias have no problem around here except for some wilts now and then, but that's everywhere. Creeping Jenny and a perennial Hibiscus thrown in there.

Cactus Zinnia I think they call them. About 5-6 feet high...

Joe Pye weed leaning. They weren't there last year as the area was a wheel barrel ramp...

Coleus, purple?? and some other things that didn't grow as the seed pack suggested in a spot that is extremely wet underneath (6-8 inches down) because of the drain field. Coleus are from cuttings about six weeks ago.

Lantana, Red Salvia (damned those things grow, dead head every two weeks) and more Zinnia from the porch...

These whachamacallits did real well this year...I'm too hungry to remember...lunch time