We got two inches of badly needed rain. Few plants got blown over.

The US Drought Monitor has Montgomery County in moderate drought status. Not that long ago, we were on the border of extreme/severe drought.

I need to get me some compost made with hardwood leaves and coffee grounds to pep up my plants. I have two new ones I hope to get digital images & scans of soom. One is the macrophylla-sagittata hybrid from Betsy Clebsch's garden, and the other a nearly rock garden fuzzy gray sage with red flowers from Oaxaca, collected by my friend from Smith College, their greenhouse manger, Rob Nicholson.

Here is a link that might be useful: The US Drought Monitor

That sounds like an interesting hybrid. My own attempts at sagittata have been complete failures while macrophylla loves my conditions although this year it was almost a month late in flowering when compared to last year.

I have the macrophylla x sagittata cross plant, the foliage is like sagittata and the flowers are like Macrophylla, it also sets seeds like the macrophylla, I have sown them and have 8 plants that are all different, cant wait to see the flowers to see which way they will go.

After checking both the Tingo Blue macrophylla and the sagittata, both from Ginny Hunt, it is hard to tell from the foliage. The hybrid does not have the noticeable halberd lobes of sagittata at the base of the leaves, but does have the branching of the floral spike. The lower lip is large, but deflexed backwards (at least in late summer)

Glad you recieved some much needed rain,we will look forward to seeing some pic's of the Hybrids!! We are
hoping Ike will help end our drought. Salvias bloomed
nice after a rain a few week ago.S.Farinaceas are still
sending spikes up no flowers yet.