I am appreciating my shade garden more and more, also, especially for the daylilies. Our summer temps sound almost identical, and now that you mention it, the snapdragons that I have in full sun get rust each summer but I've never seen any in the shaded garden. Ditto for my experience with fuchsia gall mite - in fact, nearly all the plant maladies that I work with each summer in full sun have never shown up in the deep shade garden. The only reversal of that is crown rot where I have lost one fan in the shade garden and two on the shaded porch. Geez I'm glad we had this conversation! I suppose it could all be coincidence but for now I'm thinking I just need to hold off from the pre- and early-spring watering I was doing in the shade garden and all will be good. I'm going to keep a more watchful eye this year too, to see if those trends in my own gardens continues.
