Name: Susan Virginia (Zone 8a) God is the only thing that matters.
So sorry to hear about the drought. I have been through a few, probably nothing like California. LOL. My shrubbery have not ignited. But, joking aside, it is just plain depressing. I do think a box of rotted plants might cheer you up after all.
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Mat.6:28-29