Well, I can only hope that I haven't managed to kill them by this summer. We were just notified by the water company that they're going to put meters in our neighborhood (a good idea, I'm sure, but we've always paid a flat rate and I've just watered away all the time...) Now I guess I'll try heavily mulching everything, because I suspect my DH would croak if we got a $500 water bill in July or something. We have very silty soil that does not hold water, so I think I'm definitely going to have to heavily mulch. It's always something...