Wind
lydiaann
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Of course I mean in the garden...what are you like?
This summer has been (in my experience) unprecedented for high winds. I understand it's because the jet stream is dipping lower than normal this year, but it's playing havoc with my containers. Despite constant watering, daily (sometimes twice) inspections/dead-heading, all of my containers - basket, pots, etc. - are suffering and so many flowers have now come off they look more like September than the beginning of August. The long, hot June meant my borders all flowered early and all at once, so colour is much less than normal right now. Just spent another couple of hours snipping and nipping...I would love to have a better show for this coming week (Rellies coming for a few hours) to be able to parade my normally colourful garden.
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Just the norm here - but we get a lot of wind anyway so that's probably why I haven't really noticed!
What's a long, hot June?
Joking aside - perhaps worth getting some later flowering perennials into your borders, just in case it becomes an annual event. Asters, Heleniums etc.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Terrible wind here for weeks! and occasional monsoon-like downpours.
Cosmos broken in parts of the garden. heleniums and heliopsis both mostly on the ground and just about everything has been battered to some extent.
Never known anyting like it, but it seems to have dropped dramatically this afternoon at last.
Jest stream is well south of the UK - at least it's keeping the 40C Mediterranean heat at bay
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Windy conditions are always a bit of a challenge in my garden but the rain has done the real damage. It's not so much the amount as it all arriving in 24 hours, hard and fast, too. Ah well, what would a British summer be without a few surprises?
In total agreement with you Lydiaann, very windy recently but it's really the very hot spell in the early summer time that has caused early flowering and many plants to go over quickly. Just a mass of green now. Very disappointing displays from stuff grown from seed and now having to plant something different for the later part of the year, not what I had in mind.
Lots of fencing needs repair around here, which indicates how the weather has been, in fact the next Storm 'whatever'.. will send mine across to Norwich...
My garden gets the full blast of a west wind but this year has been worse than usual. Needed to stake plants which normally don't require staking and patio pots had to be moved out of the worst of the blasts.
Same here, I have keep picking up pots on my patio. The usually stable Rudbekia collapsed and the Pholx has seen better days.
Yep, damned wind snapped off one of the two nice top branches on my new crabapple tree!
We are also getting more violent summer weather down here, we may get a few settled days but also plenty of wind and heavy rain too. The jet stream has moved, hence the poor weather, however I am sure we will have a lovely Autumn and the last winter and this spring were good too, the seasons are very muddled for sure.
we're 10 miles from the Atlantic. Wind is nothing new.