Salvia bed

August 18th,  (these 2 posts are out of sink, I don't know how to move this to the right sequence)
I spent the morning clearing the mulch from the bed, then the second morning, the 19th  applying compost and scratching it in a bit.  The mole trails did not get the hot pepper treatment. It was much too much of a job and probably not worth the trouble..........................
Anyway, when I got the compost down, I watered heavily.  I applied the mulch the next day over a landscape cloth again, and watered thoroughly again.
We had a cooler night and in the 90's today.

The pictures are of re mulching and the salvias after
pruning back to the greenest  part of the plants.
The leaves tell me that they are the newest part of the
plant and ready for the next spurt of growth.  These
will hopefully, fill out and be blooming in a month or
so.

The second picture is of the older part of the plant
and the newest growth.

T

We had lovely rain (not enough) two nights in a row.  The rain wasn't heavy enough to wet all the way down through the mulch...................but having watered earlier, the plants should perk up.