No relief in sight here @Obelixx, unfortunately. Oh for mid 20s. I find myself reminiscing about the torrential monsoon-like downpours we normally get in summer - humidity, fungal diseases, flattened plants and all.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
It is just a forecast @Nollie but I hope this one's correct. No rain in sight tho I would dearly love a good, steady downpour. I hope your roasting ends soon.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Finger’s crossed indeed Obelixx! Given how dry the ground was, I didn’t grow anything in the vegetable garden this year apart from some early salad potatoes, so at least that is one less area to worry about.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Predicted at 41 here outside Paris tomorrow…. Air conditioning better be working in the offices or I’m coming home. Better to bake at home and be able to hide my misery than sitting in the open plan office melting and sharing my misery with the others.
I think I’ll be counting the cost of the heat in frazzled plants, supposed to drop temps on Wednesday but goes back up to steady 30 plus every day for at least the next 15 days.
Next year I’m stopping wasting my time and money for things like lobelia etc which just frazzle.
Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
I'm out of the Uk at the moment and am curious how my plants are doing, esp roses this year, and the apple trees which are always grumpy anyway. I wonder if my esp apple tree will have dropped all the apples in outrage at the heat. I put in a load of new roses in the ground over the winter. The north facing garden is sheltered, so no wind problems, and it's narrow, so all parts of the garden will be in some shade for some of the day. Fingers crossed there is no scenes of massacre when I get back and my waterer is jumping on top of the case. I suspect he will deserve a medal, after all this.
As ever with the forum, hearing about everyone's battles, makes me appreciate my own meagre struggles for what they are, and be thankful for what I have. And what I don't have.
33C at midnight and I woke up at 3am absolutely dripping. Couldn't open any windows as there is smoke from a scrubland fire about 10kms away at Mareuil-sur-Lay. This morning we have a fresh breeze, murky cloud cover and 20C.
It's set to stay in the mid to high 20s for the next week or so but not a drop of rain in sight so I've been researching drought tolerant perennial plants. I've found a nursery that does nothing but those on the Ile de Ré which is just over an hour away but it will have to wait till September as it will be madness on the whole island during the summer season.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I have plants suffering left, right and centre I'm hoping that we get a random thunderstorm tonight and a torrential downpour, even though l know that's not ideal. We don't have a hosepipe ban (yet), but it doesn't sit right with me to use one, and to be honest l would rather chuck a whole watering can on the roots.
I remember a few years back we had a very hot dry Summer and the warnings were for more of the same to come. I bought a load of drought tolerant plants, only for us to have several cool wet Summers in a row. They were not happy. The joys of gardening. I did find a small frog buried in a plant pot this morning, gave him a sprinkle with the watering can which he seemed to enjoy.
So far everything seems to be coping. I moved the tomatoes out of the greenhouse (they are in pots) and have been watering in the evening. I might have lost a potted tree but it was a Missouri black walnut that I planted for fun so wasn't likely to survive too long anyway. They are the kind of tree that gets huge and has deep roots so living in a smallish plastic pot was never going to be ideal.
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It's set to stay in the mid to high 20s for the next week or so but not a drop of rain in sight so I've been researching drought tolerant perennial plants. I've found a nursery that does nothing but those on the Ile de Ré which is just over an hour away but it will have to wait till September as it will be madness on the whole island during the summer season.
I'm hoping that we get a random thunderstorm tonight and a torrential downpour, even though l know that's not ideal.
We don't have a hosepipe ban (yet), but it doesn't sit right with me to use one, and to be honest l would rather chuck a whole watering can on the roots.
I remember a few years back we had a very hot dry Summer and the warnings were for more of the same to come. I bought a load of drought tolerant plants, only for us to have several cool wet Summers in a row. They were not happy.
The joys of gardening.
I did find a small frog buried in a plant pot this morning, gave him a sprinkle with the watering can which he seemed to enjoy.