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It has been a true pleasure to see my gardens grow this year. The new student exhibition plot has done very well and I am happy with the way the plants have acclimated, as well as the performance of the plants in the containers. After a light liquid feed and an application of a slow realease fertilizer, the plants are coming to life. The colors are vibrant, the bees and birds abound, and FINALLY, we got some rainfall. It poured on friday, and saturday it rained all day long; a nice steady rain that seemed to actually have the chance to soak in instead of running off.

My garden on the row has also done well. I am lucky to have chosen plants with low watering needs this year. I am amazed at the increased size of my perennials from last year. Unfortunately I lost both Gaura plants. I am really not sure what happened; one was lost over the winter, and the other I just lost last week. I noticed that it did not have any flowers, and I was concerned and suspicious since it was covered in blooms last year at this time. About a week later, not only was it lacking flowers, but it was heading downhill fast. At this point, it is toasted. I will have to do some investigating on this matter because I have never, ever had a problem with Gaura other than aphids; and this was not the culprit. As I suspected, the mosses have not faired well in this heat, they are slowly dying off. On the other hand my Echinacea continues to happily bloom!

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