Cindy ...
Hot weather isn't true for all of northern California. I live in an old gold mining town on the inside of the coastal range and don't get the coastal influence to keep temps cooler. Instead I get the valley influence, which is why my evening temps are so high. Heat rises and the valley heat climbs the mountains ...
and keeps the temps from cooling off until about 9 pm. I have a 50 degree change of temps between day temps and night temps. It doesn't cool off down in the valley ...
H. micrantha is native to Trinity County at the higher elevations. My plant has survived total neglect for ten years. The only reason the deer ate it this year is that I have finally gotten Mrs. J's roses deer fenced properly, so they are eating everything else they can find.
I think I am going to cage it for the summer and just transplant it in fall. That part of the slope is very much like where the plants are found in the wild.
I was going to use heucheras to create a foliage garden out in front, but since my deer can't read, that's out. I may create that foliage garden up on the slope instead.
'Hollywood' is on my wish list ...
Smiles,
Lyn
