Upper Midwest Gardening: Who else has the midsummer gardening blues?, 1 by franknjim

franknjim wrote:
The rain has been just to the south of you for the past two days and keeps on coming. It is heading due east. I watch for the big storms because they usually end up leaving a ton of broken branches in the yard from my icky Silver Maples. There are quite a few big dead branches laying high up in the trees just waiting to come down and crush my babies. I had a nice new from last fall intense fuscia tall garden phlox that was crushed a few weeks ago when a 2" dead branch came down and broke off most of the stems while flattening most of the others.