corn flower

the maize and its ancestor weren't the only grasses suffering from the weather...the eastern gamagrass had some curl to its leaves as well...it's a perennial ( like the zea diploperennis ) and has a much deeper and extensive root system then the maize so when it starts to curl you know things are turning ugly...it will recover though just like the maize and teosinte...it just takes a bit longer...the larger of the hopi blue maize is preparing to flower...a sure sign the season is progressing...it's about three feet tall ( nothing like the engineered giants in the industrial fields...more like sweet corn ) so hopefully there will be ears forming soon and i can give away blue corn...the bottom photo is the perennial garden project about five this evening...still a bit of green in a prched university lawn...hope it rains soon.