Dear Friends and Gardeners August 30, 2010

Diervilla lonicera
Dear Dee and Mary Ann and Gardening Friends Everywhere,

In 48 hours, give or take, August will be over and it is on to September. Here in Indianapolis, we will remember this as a record setting August – the driest ever with just .37 inches of rain. This beats the record set in 1897 when they measured .47 inches of rain.

This is a far different summer than I thought we would