Had two echium pininanas brought down in the wind this weekend, each around 12ft tall. Real shame. They’ve been flowering for what feels like months now. They’d done much better than expected after looking very bare coming out of the cold winter.
We've been having an abnormally wet summer (flash flooding, now with tropical temperatures...yuck) and many of my plants have been beaten down by torrential rains. Normally I don't have to stake even my tallest perennials, but I should have this year! My mother and I walked the blueberry field down the road from us last night and the bushes are bent over which I've never seen, even with a bumper crop of berries.
Mom's Miss Kim Lilac is about 6 feet tall, and multiple times this summer it's been bent over after heavy rains. I've never seen that happen to this particular bush. Thankfully the branches do lift up again after a few days.
New England, USA
Metacomet soil with hints of Woodbridge and Pillsbury
I'm mid Bucks, Aylesbury. And my garden has taken a hammering. Most of the tall plants are bent so low they are touching the ground. Not sure what's been worst this year, the heat and dryness of April, may, June. Or the wind and torrential rai of July!
There hasn't been big rain here at all, but the constant wind has flattened many plants. The delphinium especially did not keep up with the wind and my makeshift supports were useless. I can't find adequate plant supports here so I have had some delivered at my son's in London which I will collect when I go to visit him.
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