I hope the peony springs up; watch that spot there may be a little root there. It has been tough keeping plants alive. I have a bad opinion about the mop head hydrangeas. I got some on sale and gave some away, planted two at my friend's house and a few here. Mine only survive if they are right in front here where I have pots to water. At my friend's house all summer they were wilted everytime I looked at them. After a while a wilted plant is like having a crippled chicken running around, it just makes you feel bad.

Looks like I lost 2 of Mother's old hydrangeas, and a couple odd perinneals from Botany Shop I had never heard of. The phlox I thought I had lost are almost all coming back with small green leaves. The roses in the circle bed don't look great, but I didn't lose any. The creeping phlox that I bought more of this year looked great all summer and has now doubled in size. Lost a few groundcover fancy ajuga and petunias. All the tall Mexican morning glories thrived, so next spring, anything with "Mexican" in the name will get bought and planted. I wished, along about the middle of July that I had a lot more marigolds, gallardia, celosia. Hostas and astilibes just didn't do well.

All in all, the heat was really hard on everything, wasn't it? Hope summer of 2013 is better!
Sunny

I am not going to give up on anything until next spring. I do see iris sending up new shoots, two clems have lonely single blooms. I intend to cut them all to the ground next spring and see what happens. I see no sign of my Sarah Bernhardt peony but hope it will come back from the tuber next spring. I bet yours does too Christie.
My hosta bed looks like the Sahara Desert; who knows?

My accidental gly-4 spraying may have killed more than the drought!