Too Darn Hot

Sun Baked Parsley

As the rest of the country cools off for the arrival of Autumn, San Diego is experiencing a wave of very hot weather.  We had two consecutive days of temperatures over 100 degrees last week and several others in the 90s.  

I think I can hear my brother laughing all the way from Southern Oregon, where they routinely have several weeks of 100 plus degree weather every summer, but San Diego just isn't used to this kind of weather.  

We can retreat into our air conditioning, but our plants stay outside.  Cindy has been viewing the damage; parsley that was thriving a week ago is now a sunburnt mess, or was until she ripped it out. 

The leaves on the new avocado tree are showing quite a bit of sun scorch, even though Cindy has been watering it every day.  

Avocado Leaves

One of her Master Gardener friends reported burn marks on orchids, succulents, agave, bromeliads, honeysuckle, Boston fern, umbrella plant and some trees.  

We expected to see the California Ground Squirrels doing the back stroke in the bird bath, but they seem to have retreated to their presumably cooler underground burrows.