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AUG. 7, 2024
VOL. 105, NO. 32
The annual Magnolia Village Car Show is from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sunday. It will be on West McGraw Street in Magnolia Village. It is known as a happy, casual event with classic cars, muscle cars and unusual vehicles. Many are from Magnolia owners. It is fun for car enthusiasts and enjoyable for the whole family. Courtesy
Your garden on vacation
Erica Browne Grivas Get Growing
Summer is so beautiful in the Pacific Northwest that it seems a shame to go away, but if you do, don’t forget to set your garden up for success. Seattle already receives barely perceptible levels of moisture in summer from rain, so our gardens depend on us for life support during our dry season from MaySeptember. With weather patterns becoming so erratic, keeping your garden hydrated is even more critical to sustaining it during any heat dome that may roll in. You may be saying, oh, my
garden is shady and has never been irrigated or watered in summer. That’s what I used to say about the East-facing fence border in our yard. It’s got plenty of dappled tree cover, has moisture-retentive clay soil and plenty of tough mature shrubs and trees. For about ten years, I never watered that border, and still grew hosta leaves as big as my head. In the last few years however, we’ve had consistently low rainfall in winter and excess heat in summer and, in a new twist, spring. This created a double whammy of drought and heat (with a few PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE
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extended winter freezing events thrown in) that overstressed even the hardiest plants in our borders. Despite my extra ministrations watering in summer the last two years, I lost a massive lacecap hydrangea that predated us moving in, as well as a mature variegated willow Salix ‘Haruko Nishiki.’ So, the bottom line is, if you have mature trees and shrubs that you value and you haven’t had an irrigation system the last three years, they likely need about a month of water to catch up and rehydrate their roots and surrounding soil — please give them a good soaking (even several hours) right now. I’ll wait. Other conditions that merit extra attention include: ▶ Young seedlings, cuttings, and recent divisions. One of the biggest causes of directsown seed-starting failure is letting them dry out. Their first roots are extremely thin and fragile GRIVAS Page 5Æ