This past wet year looks to have caused some causalities among my plants. Most disappointing, echinacea Hot Papaya (this would be it's 3rd year) and Hot Summer , planted last year, isn't looking too good either. Maybe they'll suddenly wake up but all my regular old coneflowers are putting up new growth, I think these should be, too.
No new growth on my 3 purple liastris, either, though the white is putting out new growth. One agastache only has one small shoot. My 5 butterfly weeds haven't shown up either, but they're always very late, about the last thing to wake up. I'm not worried about them yet, but I'll be very disappointed if I lose them.
This has been our warmest winter ever, but 2011 was our wettest year ever. We had almost twice our normal rainfall. All that wet insn't kind to plants in clay soil. I was thinking that if everything I've wintersown sprouts, I won't have space to plant it. I guess I was wrong there!
Karen
