Still bone dry here and now the heat has come back. Plants left gasping for water. While watering a couple of trees covering a shady corner, TPP came upon a patch of wax bells, Kirengeshoma palmata, a rather slow growing, shade tolerant perennial of Asian origin. A reference says it's in the Hydrangea family, but nothing about it actually shouts hydrangea to TPP's eye. The leaves sort of remind one of a sycamore, but less broad, perhaps the largish lobes and coarseness. But if left alone they can form a nice clump, in this case paired with a beauty berry bushes (both needed watering), one deep azure blue, the other yellow. The flowers are about an inch long and about that diameter but never opening widely. The petals are quite fleshy. And here it is in flower in late summer early fall. What's not to like. At 3-4' tall they do tend to be floppy and seem to require some support, of the grow-through nature.
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