Finally got to the Baby Tear area. What a mess! There was a very hot spell in June while I was on the Slice of America Trip and the whole area really took a hit. That brown stuff is cooked baby tears.
The Baby Tear area used to be a very shady spot, getting it's shade from a large California pepper tree and a huge eucalyptus tree in the patio area. About 10 years the eucalyptus tree fell and wiped out the pepper tree......thank God because it could have wiped out our house! Any how, the area is more sunny now so all the shade loving plants just have a rough time, plus the moisture is not held in the ground because of the sun. The poor plants have just struggled along rarely looking really good and not getting much attention. So....I am going to rethink and redo the area, make it more English garden looking.
Currently there is a camillia bush, a struggling Japanese maple, a couple of hydrengas, several foxgloves that have reseeded themselves for year and baby tears for ground cover.
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