Trumpetvine, drought
Jun. 10th, 2011 02:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neverspentThe trumpetvine is back and blossoming with gusto. There are big, knobby orange trumpets hanging over the cars in the parking lot, vines and flowers covering utility poles and trees... while many plants (including trees) are already wilting in this early-season heat wave, the trumpet vine seems to be quite happy.
The heat and lack of rain seems like just what we wanted after the rains and floods in April and May. But it's more like insult to injury, unfortunately; we entered the year with drought conditions, and the rains alleviated that a little but not completely. Now we have some farmers whose fields are still under water and others who got their seeds in late and now the seedlings are dying in the ground. Any young trees and plants without deep roots are suffering too. We usually see this in July and August. What a year!
The heat and lack of rain seems like just what we wanted after the rains and floods in April and May. But it's more like insult to injury, unfortunately; we entered the year with drought conditions, and the rains alleviated that a little but not completely. Now we have some farmers whose fields are still under water and others who got their seeds in late and now the seedlings are dying in the ground. Any young trees and plants without deep roots are suffering too. We usually see this in July and August. What a year!