Nigrescens, new

Ambrosia, new

Inniswood, new

Frosted ME, established

Sum & Substance, well established

Even Royal Standard, old as the hills

debra

That is really disappointing, isn't it. It is a lot of work to do a garden and we look so forward to it. I haven't experienced the heat yet this year, and I am not looking forward to it. For us, the last few days have been crazy windy. That too just dries out all the plants and can break stems---along with the falling tree branches.

I don't know what you could have done to have helped your hosta.

It is brutal for sure. Same here and I have transplanted good number of them recently mostly due to rainy cool weather we've been having, am watering several times a day when can and still lots of burn.

I'm sorry. That's so frustrating.

Some years are better than others no matter where you live, and you get thru the bad years that knowing that perhaps next year will be better. Often, it IS!

Been here way too long....

-Babka

After waiting all winter to see the new growth, I sometimes get disappointed when the new growth isn't what I want it to be. That must really suck to see so many Hosta struggling. I don't feel so bad about losing Going For Gold. Although, I do want to replace it.

I'm having to water my pots every day. We're experiencing a dry stretch of upper 90's and a couple of 100's and it's only June. I generally keep my pots in the shade, which is one advantage of growing in pots.

bkay

Takes me 2 hours to water all my perennials veggie beds and hostas every day. I am consoling myself after hostas established and perennials will largely fight for themselves I will be down to veggie beds. Not this summer though and 96 in June is too much.

Thank you all for your comments……I feel like I should be transplanting them somewhere else, but don’t think moving them in this heat is a good idea. I know that the sun tolerants usual burn the first year, but for the well established ones to burn is disappointing.

debra

Oh Debra that is disappointing! We wait with anticipation for our beauties and then a bad year hits. No fun at all. We have had the extreme heat too and this week is going to be a scorcher and yet the nights are cool. My furnace has been coming on...really weird weather.

Debra, i have heat/ sun damage on some of my hosta that have mid day sun. i think the high temps made the damage way worse than the minor damage I usually see. Coast to Coast and Sum and Substance really took it on the chin last week…..wondering what tomorrow will do.

Sherry

You, myself, lindalana and tsugajunkie are all in the same area Z5-5b…. I think we probably are all seeing similar damage. I am waiting for a cool down as I definitely have to move Bloodline…..I planted it in tooooo much sun, but don’t want to move in this heat!
debra

Arcy, I just may have to do exactly that! I have been doing hand watering, rotating the beds, and hitting the sun tolerant bed every day. we had some heavy rain last week,but the ground still looks cracked.

debra

right deb i wouldn't put bloodline in too much sun. especially mid day sun. mine gets morning sun only. the color is starting to fade as it does when it gets hot.

I am convinced the damage is more than available water.

take a look at these sun tolerant hosta that have been soaking in water.

doubled up

royal crest

and grand marmalade

I think it has to do with a plants genetics.

its ability to react to sudden transpiration needs.

its been studied that antioch has better transpiration than the tropical fragrant ones.

streaked antioch

what is shocking is how the huge leaves of elatior never seem to be effected.

sudden heat spells/climate shifts/genetics?

the last two years, ...this is new. never had this kind of damage before.

The blues are pretty dramatic. halcyon went from a nice blue to two tone.

melted away in one 100 degree day.

some species that grow in a wide range of conditions do better. smaller stomata slower transpiration. Less water content. they are more adaptable to sudden temp fluctuations.

of course most hosta growers are growing hybrids.

Actually hosta_maker, my Halcyon is doing extremely well in this heat:

It gets morning sun…
debra

We haven't had rain in 2 weeks and the temperatures have been in the 90's on and off. We have been watering each evening when we get home but the ground is still so dry. It's so disappointing to wait all winter and then have the hostas suffer heat damage in June. We are currently trying to find an all metal sprinkler since we are constantly dealing with leaking and other issues with metal base sprinklers with plastic guts. Anyone have any ideas? When you google all metal sprinklers, you get a lot of sprinklers with metal bases but the insides are plastic which break and fail to function properly.

Arcy, I bet not very much it will take to get hostas shrink, specially not watering...

I went to local box store and Milorganite nearly doubled in price ? Glad to have stables locally, manure it is, funny story, I had bag of manure sitiing on the ground, started applying- never seen such fat grubs inside, they crawled from my grass into bag, tripled size...need to apply more Milky spores.

Today was cooler hubby watered in the morning and by evening it was as dry as he did nothing.

My plan is to get free wood chips to apply on top of manure and make big layer of mulch. Thankfully for the garden I have well water so considering myself lucky.

Spring was great here. Plenty of rain, no need to water. The day summer hits, the rain stops, and I started watering yesterday. My pots are all rapidly drying out. I think my mix is too loose this year. Well, time to go move the sprinkler . . .

I’ve been doing the same thing steve per arcy’s post…..one day front, next day side, next day back and then repeat…..pots every day as well as some new perennials. When will it cool down?????
debra

Miles 10612: Melnor has all metal spot sprinklers. Amazon shows only their square pattern but they also sell three other spray patterns.

Because they sit on the ground I had to raise them higher (what a pain) because of overhanging leaf vegetation.

I've since bought Orbit 58283 three arm high rise sprinklers. They work fine. The outside is metal don't know about the inside.