we've had non stop rain now for well over a week. as i write this it's torrential, like someone outside with a hosepipe and idiots still driving like lunatics up and down the road !!! it's (supposedly) going to get a bit better from Wednesday here (Swansea), wait and see where the jet stream is though
Interestingly, I looked back in my garden journal and noted the following numbers of rainy days here in the last four months:- June - 5 July - 7 August - 3 Sept - 4
This last week has been the wettest with some torrential showers. Saturday, I think it rained all day and most of the evening in Oxfordshire (we were away) but it was raining hard when we left home and I think it was the same.
Wow - only 7 days in July when you had rain! Even the June and August figures are incredibly low. We've still had more wet days than that in what was a record breaking season for sun and dry weather. Just show how different various parts of the UK are.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I know, I couldn't quite believe it either. I knew September had been very dry as I was having to water pots frequently. I have tried not to water the flower beds this year, they have to sink or swim but when newish or expensive plants are visibly wilting, I have watered. I have given most of my pots to my daughter - I don't have the energy any more to water them all in a big terraced garden , especially when it's very hot.
September is usually a good month for us because it's much drier than summer months- summers are wet here normally - but September has also been very mild. We would normally have a lot of single figure temps overnight, and there hasn't been many - only about half a dozen.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We've had weeks of no rain, not even a shower, been praying for rain. Five waterbutts and they ran out weeks ago, been using grey water when available. Our soil is clay and we get a lot of windy weather, so once it stops raining our ground will be dry in less than a week, then it's good old gloves on, spade and fork in hand and back to work, I've got 200 bulbs to plant and a meadow to sow.
Gwen - TWO HUNDRED?? omg and I thought 50 was a lot - do you want to borrow my new augur? Shazza, yeah it's been torrential here too as we're right on the edge of the Pennines, we always get it bad - not that I'm complaining, saves me from having to keep watering the new plants, I always check my pots as they are near the house and tend to have rain shadows. You said you had a meadow to sow? We've just sown some grass after getting rid of some pond reeds and two areas are turning green but the last one needs more seed I think, is it warm enough to take now? I think there is a small 'high' approaching the UK - fingers crossed.
I've had the Sensation before and they were quite happy in my border for a couple of years then sort of disappeared. I have spent weeks digging out rocks, amending the soil etc so it shouldn't be too arduous - well, apart from my trapped nerves complaining. I also got a bag of Tulips and some daffs, not sure where to put them - I've just bought some 'Everedge Garden Rings' (see photo) for my memorial trees and was wondering if I put the daffs or tulips inside the ring would they be detrimental to the trees - would they take up all the nutrients?
Has anyone seen that app called 'Picture This'? I downloaded it last night, uploaded all my plant photo's already on my phone and it identified most of them, had a bit of trouble with an Olearia but I was pretty impressed, going to walk round my garden with the phone and see what else it can identify, the info it gives on care for each plant is quite detailed for an app.
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June - 5
July - 7
August - 3
Sept - 4
This last week has been the wettest with some torrential showers. Saturday, I think it rained all day and most of the evening in Oxfordshire (we were away) but it was raining hard when we left home and I think it was the same.
Just show how different various parts of the UK are.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Allium Cristophii
Allium Purple Sensation
Allium Violet Beauty
Allium Purple Rain