Here they grow alongside rivers, too much water is unlikely.

By the way, in the pic the plant is wet because I chose to double down and water it. The soil felt dry. These do have a warranty, so if it dies I can replace and soon and maybe just pick a new site a few feet away.

Do ninebarks tend to perk up quickly from a watering like, say, a flower pot? I am OCD about these damn plants! What a curse lol.

It has already perked up within an hour. It needed water!

As Ken would say, I was looking for that instant gratification.

And you planted a plant in flower and when it's already hot. Give it time to recover from the shock. And water deeply once a week--not a little bit daily.

how bad did you get hit by yesterdays storms ... did the 3 days over 90 degrees help your new transplants??

the next few 70 degree days ought to .. the 40 degrees nights.. especially ...

ken

Got about .75 inches of rain yesterday, which I was very thankful for. Otherwise the storm didn't do too much damage to me or my area.

I don't have much time for watering all of my transplants from the last 3 springs. We just had our first child in April. My wife already wants to kill me for spending too much time outside and doesn't want to hear anymore about plants! BUT one day my baby girl is going to have her own special secret garden.

I don't have much time for watering all of my transplants from the last 3 springs.

As plants establish, you should be able to ease up on watering unless to you get some prolonged periods of drought. For me, depending on the plant, year 2-3 they are mostly on their own. In my sandy soil, there are a few exceptions like the Hydrangeas, which will be the first to get supplemental irrigation if it's dry for too long.

Set a timer on your phone, and set the hose on a slow trickle at the base of a shrub for 15 minutes. When the timer goes off, repeat. Do laundry or vacuuming or start dinner prep or change the baby in between moving the hose. You don’t need to actually stand there holding the hose.

Well, I had three 11' b&b spruce trees and a b&b birch planted in 2018. Those were huge root balls, and this year I just plan to water them every couple of weeks. Last year there were eight 9' emerald greens that I plan to water about once a week if no rain for this year. 2019 also had many other trees and shrubs and perennials that need occasional water. This year I added another 20 or so shrubs. I had quite a bit of empty space to work with when I bought this house.

My routine is to use two hoses, the timer on my phone, and a couple of beers. It takes hours. But most of the bigger ones are starting to establish so this year isn't too bad. Next year I should not have to water much.

I hope you are mulching well and you don't have the shrubs just randomly dotted about the lawn. Not a good look and a real pain to mow around.

It's kind of hard to kill a nine bark, one of the toughest I've ever planted. Many years ago I picked up 8 ninebarks from Menards for free they were going to toss, dried up sticks in a pot best describes them. From the dead they came back to life with a little care, just some water, so planted them and they grew like weeds.

I still have two I never water because they're under the drip line of a building roof where they get flooded every time it rains and grow 6 plus feet high in one summer even after I cut them down to the ground. I do it because they grow to high and trying to top them is not possible because just trimming the weeping branches make them grow wild and they look like a bad hair day every day.

So I'll say with confidence you can't over water them and once established can't kill them unless you pull out the root ball, and what I had to do with the others I planted in stupid locations around the yard.