George, do you water your annuals when the temps get to be around 94*...? If so, how often? My yard is full of black-eyed susans, New Guinea hybrid impatiens, cleome, wand-flower, ageratum, blue salvia, gladiolis -- all in the full sun and heat. No sign of foliage dying, no sign of unhappiness. They get watered three times a day by ground level soakers. The dahlias have never pulled this stunt before. I can't bring myself to believe that this is heat related. BTW, all the flowers I mentioned above (except for the New Guineas) came back by themselves -- to me that means my annuals have become perennials! We picked up and replanted 99 ageratum volunteers -- and since there were about 300 cleomes which sprang up, we had to discard 200. All 48 glads returned. I've never planted a black-eyed susan in my life, and yet I now have 7 individual clumps in full bloom. The only problem which has shown up in that bed has been about 6 mini-dahlias, about the size of a canteloupe. 3 plants simply died; 3 plants are green and plump but refuse to bloom. Penny, NY . ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.