Viewing post #2551866 by Catmint20906

hi, all. I talked to some of you just over a year ago now on moving to Centralia, WA--about a half hour south of Olympia--from Maryland. Well, I am settled here at last and spent much of the spring planning and planting my new garden areas here. I was pleased to find the huge similarity in pollinator plants available in both MD and WA, and thought I knew what I was doing.
Well here it is midsummer, and although I've always heard how 'rainy' it is here I now know that most of that rain falls in the winter and summers as far as I can tell are pretty darn dry! (Not to mention the abnormally scorching heatwave we had a few weeks ago , which so many plants are still recovering from...)
Cue: my first irrigation system! something I always swore I would never do. I've always been a pollinator gardener at heart, but maybe it's time for me to learn more about xeriscaping.... ?