August 23, 2026

What the 2026 monsoon did to the beds

We measured 4.1 inches between July 3 and August 20, most of it in three storms. The second one dropped 1.6 inches in forty minutes and moved a full bed of one-gallon globe mallow about nine feet downhill.

The plants were fine. The labels were not. We spent a morning sorting orange from pink by the leaf shape, which is only partly reliable, so this fall a few customers may get a surprise color. We will mark those pots.

Lesson taken: labels now go inside the pot wall, pushed to the bottom, not stuck in the top.

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