So I mentioned I am on vacation and that it has been crazy stormy. Things finally dried out enough today for me to go and assess the damage for real. I know that there was flooding and power outages all of over town at the beginning of the week. And Lily and I had tromped our way through some puddles, leaves and downed tree limbs on her walks. And I knew that some of my flowers had not faired well but today I took a full inventory. The good news is that nothing permeant was damaged, the bad was a lot of floppy flowers. But the really big sad was my very cheerful sunflowers. They were all laying on the ground, sad, broken and soggy. (Too depressing to even take a photo of.) But I salvaged what I could and brought the smaller blooms inside.
A few sunflowers, cosmos, asters and feverfew.
For someone who likes to grow flowers, I know that my next career won’t be florist — I am shit at arranging flowers. Always looks like a hot mess.
Behind the retaining wall and the cosmos was my other big tragedy center. They had basically all flopped.
All the cosmos and some most of the bachelor buttons and asters fell over with no hope of propping them up again. I chopped some of the worse ones but tried to coax most of them back into looking decent. Also the yard waste bin was full.
The asters in the front south side bed and herb bed also fell over. I left the front bed but did a little trim on the herb bed because we couldn’t walk down the path.
I eventually tried to prop these up but didn’t chop. A frost will be here soon enough and then I’ll cut them back for real. Also seriously bummed out that the davidii at the far right of the this bed suddenly up and died on me. Others are doing great.
The Overall[s] Adventure 
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