Lots More Rain

Sixty percent change of rain today was too low an estimate by the weather channel. My cousin, Sondra, asked me out to lunch today at The Italian Village..........yum yum! We stopped by her house so I could take a look at her hydrangeas and instruct her how to prune some of the out of shape branches. She also wanted me to take a look at one of the cuttings I had put into a container for rooting last fall for her. Somehow she lost all the others. She was sure it was a Lady In Red hydrangea because the leaves had a reddish color to them. Needless to say, I was surprised when I saw it and realized it was the purple smoke tree cutting I had also given her last year. Great news even though she had lost all of hydrangeas I had set up for her to root. This tree was really healthy and already big for a first year rooted plant. I was so pleased to see it but sorry no one else's cuttings had rooted.