Time to Say Goodbye ...

How any of the cool season plants are managing to hang on, let alone thrive, in the unseasonably early summer heat, I do not know.  But halfway through June, these two Swiss Chard plants have continued to brighten my corner of Katy.   I've been trying to remember the provenance of these plants ... are they from a package of seed that mixed the prosaic green variety and the much more colorful 'Magenta'?  Did I sow them in pots and then move them here, or did I seed them directly?  Was the green one a division from a pot I bought on clearance at Lowe's? ??????????  Loath though I am to admit it, the Head Gardener is correct in stating that I need to keep better records of such things.  I could argue that she needs to remind me to do so but I'm not in the mood for a standoff ...

I suppose it doesn't really matter now since as of this morning the plants were yanked, chopped up and left to decompose in the rose bed where they were planted.  The Head Gardener says it would be more accurate to say that they have been left to cook ... the temperature rose to 104 today on my corner of Katy.  What's really sad is that I have already reached a point of grim resignation regarding the excess of heat and the lack of rain.  Or to put a positive spin on it, like the Swiss Chard, I have exceeded expectations and accepted the weather for what it is.  That's today, mind you ... tomorrow you may hear me ranting and raving again!