I admit to having cheated a little (ok, a lot) by planting food crops in and amongst most of my ornamentals so that I could water them all at the same time. Almost every pot with a flowering bush or bulb in it also contains a tomato, pepper, herb or onion plant, and earlier in the season I had lettuce growing in every bare spot I could find. I highly recommend this technique not just so that you can cheat on watering, but because it's great to grow your own food and many food plants look beautiful. There are a few things, however, in my yard and in our community garden that have never received a drop of supplemental water this year and still look fine. Off the top of my head, I can name these things: lady banks roses (I'm convinced you couldn't kill these, once mature, with any kind of neglect or abuse) climbing hydrangea (mine isn't old enough to bloom yet but it is growing fine and not drying out at all as far as I can tell, seems to still be spreading) gardenia (planted in an extremely dry spot under a large tree where I doubt it even gets much rainfall when we have rain, but has at least a foot deep mulch, mostly leaf mold, all around it) passionflowers (I have two kinds, the one with the startlingly beautiful purple flowers, and the one that makes the egg-shaped purple fruit but has only tiny insignificant white flowers that you have to search for if you want to see. Both are doing very, very well.) lilies of many varieties, although I tend to plant the tall ones (4-6 feet tall) creeping fig (another plant you can't kill once it gets past a certain age) naked ladies or lycoris squamigera, blooming their lovely pink heads off right now (transplants from Ohio that took 2 or 3 years after moving down here to decide to bloom, but are now apparently completely acclimated) verbena bonariensis, not only blooming without water but reseeding and growing new plants everywhere without water, which also grow to maturity and somehow bloom and reseed without any water, and so on into infinity. . . kudzu and poison ivy, about which no more need be said.

I know that for many of you, the white centers grow beautifully. So do the white margins. However, those are the ones I have the most difficulty growing. Every now and then an exception, for a couple of weeks maybe, then downhill from there. So I got Patriot and Minuteman before I knew they would not do much here. I got Ann Kulpa. I got White Elephant and Eskimo Pie. Surprisingly, White Elephant (a 2011 purchase) does fine before it turns green about mid June. I lost my 2010 purchase Eskimo Pie, it dwindled to nothing, and I consoled myself with Hudson Bay. It is doing nicely. So are Pathfinder and its offspring Half & Half. Where I find solace is with the golds, and the greens--which includes all the blues which turn to green. When blue wax does not WASH off, but melts instead, the leaves wind up glossy and fairly smooth. You'd have a hard time identifying some of mine which you'd recognize if they were blue and matte finished.

Thanks, everyone. That's what I felt, too, but good to know the sentiment here is the same. Hopefully, the GC will agree, too, when they see it Monday. I will ask the GC to have the roofer send someone else more experienced to redo it. I don't think the dents can be fixed, so perhaps they'll have to rip it out and start over. @eventhecatisaboy - I don't know what gauge was used, or what the proper gauge is. But thanks for that point. @worthy - Yes, that's the exact web image I found too, and which I referenced above as the way I wanted it. Thanks all, and have a great weekend! Jamie

Are you painting because you want a color change or is the tan finish scratched or worn? Anything painted will, inevitably, need to be repainted. If you do not dislike the tan, repainting it tan will mean it will look less worn the nest time it needs painting because any original paint revealed by any peeling of the new layer of paint will be the same.. Consider choosing the same tn color as the siding of your home or a color you like from within any brick or stone you have in your exterior walls -- or, if your windows are trimmed in white, you could use white.