More Water Lovers

This Agastache, which I believe to be Blue Fortune, has returned from the dead this year.  There was no trace of it last year, unless it spent the summer hiding under the foliage of the hardy hibiscus growing next to it?  Though not a strong plant yet, and certainly not blooming very heavily, it is good just to see it again.

Is is possible that all of the water and cool weather brought life back into the roots?  That would certainly be the opposite of what every description of the genus would recommend, which is excellent drainage and thriving in a hot sunny site. 

Maybe it was a victim of one of the many herbivores that consider the garden a paradise of culinary delights?  Again, that would seem unlikely since the intensely scented plants, such as herbs, are often avoided.

I don't know how it happened, but it has returned from the dead, and lives again.  Alleluia!

In the North Garden, the Day Lilies have been going like gangbusters, adoring the flood of water.  I had been told that they particularly need a lot of water, and this has been the year to prove that proclivity.

On the right is a 'Golden Peach' from the Klehm's Song Sparrow Nursery, which I originally bought sometime in the 1990's for our house in the city.  The color is clear, the petals are substantial, and many flowers are produced.  However, I no longer can find it available from any nursery;  if you want want, I would have to provide it.  It does make continually larger clumps that need division and a renewal of the soil with compost.  If only there were another place that day lilies could be safely grown.  Maybe I need to try the area between the shed and the house?  I don't think the deer would go there.

The Toad Lily, Tricyrtis formosana 'Gilt Edge', is blooming ahead of schedule, probably more because of the cooler weather than the amount of water.  Since it usually blooms in September, it might have been confused with the drop in temperatures.  The overall height is also shorter, with less of the related flopping.  There are too many variables to be sure one way or the other.