We had a few days of very hot weather with more of the same to come. I put a canopy over two of the girls to keep off most of the sun when at its peak throughout the afternoon. The other big lady has plenty of natural cover from surrounding trees that seems to work well. Started adding liquid kelp extract to all to help with heat management. The rainbow girls flowers have such lovely soft pastel color hairs. The aroma in my backyard is getting quite strong so I’m going to beef up my mitigation methods this week.
Sorry to say one of my girls burned up today due to the 114 F heat . She had some good natural cover(I thought) but still turned into a crispy critter
The ladies that were covered entirely by the new canopy did ok, only one came away with damage where the early afternoon sun got through under the canopy. I’ve got the ladies better covered for tomorrow’s heatwave.
Thinking about getting some colorful auto seeds and seeing what happens. Any suggestions?
It’s been a real scorcher the last few days along with an alert for elevated UV levels . My big rainbow girl had burns all over her east facing side w/a pattern that tracks with the sun passing overhead from 11ish to half passed 12 lots of crispy bronze leaves left behind. Thing is that I’ll need to order a canopy to cover her since she’s much taller than our patio umbrellas.
Hopefully it’ll cool down over the next few days.