Floppers at DSBG

My wife and I went to the Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden on my birthday last Sunday. They have aged plants like I do.

There are some real floppers - most notably, the Panicum virgatum 'Heavy Metal', switch grass. Mine have greyed out and most are laying about on the ground. Only a couple have remained upright; none are their normal greenish blue. At DSBG, they cheated. My picture didn't come out well but they are using thin dried out bamboo sticks and string to keep their specimens upright.

Their Rudbeckia are on the decline and I didn't see any Echninea either. Now, I don't feel so bad; just disappointed.