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What's special about gardening In your county?
Gardening in a mild climate here in Cornwall enables us to grow tender plants. Salt laden winds can be a problem without protection and we don't get those lovely autumn colours you guys up north get but we have a long flowering season and few winter losses. Can't grow roses though here and too many "emItts" in summer but we local yokels are smarter than the English think we are!
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On the Cumbria, Scottish, Northumberland borders...
Cold
Windy
Snowy
A lot of rain...ALOT
Clay peat sodden ground
Many christmas trees, seen one you've seen em all
Scenic though as high ground, can see the Lake District hills, the Pennines, southern Scotland hills , the solway estuary .
More things grow than I thought , a lot of protection needed in some cases.
Until 2012 I would have said dryness
In the sticks near Peterborough
Here in South Wales, we have mild, wet weather. In my small, walled grden, I can grow quite tender plants but the waterlogged ground means that some things rot in the ground and the wind does not dry up the ground. It would be a very sunny garden except that we get so much cloud and rain! 2012 was terrible, here as everywhere else, but there is always a lot of rain. Rose black spot is a severe problem.
We have dealt with the rain problem by building a large pergola with sheets of plastic nailed to the top, so that we can get into the garden in warm,wet weather. Plants that like moisture are lush and green, but sun-lovers struggle. Wales is a breattiful place with ever-changing scenery, from the coastal plain and beaches to the lower hills of the south and the rugged mountains of the north, but sometimes I think that the only way to really enjoy the garden would be to put a roof over it all!
Know what you mean about Christmas tree's Bunnysgarden. Drove through South Lakes and the edge of Grizdale today. Scenery is fabulous in Cumbria but it was sad to see forests with tall conifers grown tightly together and the tree's had little foilage on their bottoms even though the tree's must be as tall as houses or even taller.
I'm in Lancashire but very close to Cumbria. Heathers and bracken grow for fun in cumbria. We have lots of rain this part of Lancashire and the county soon looks lush in the summer. It amazes me the plants people are able to grow in their gardens in Lytham St Annes on the sea front, with gale force winds coming in from the sea, often leaving drifts of sand on the roads and then there are the floods and high tides. Barnoldwick and Bacup near the Yorkshire boarder get snow even in our mildest winters but their gardens come alive in the spring.
For me it's the diversity in Lancashire that's special.
Hello, We have more than 35-40 degrees Celsius (10% humidity) on the day and at night less than 20 degrees Celsius (80% humidity).
We live at the end of a very large mountain valley that blow a cool night-wind from southern China via Laos to us. Our farm is located about 900 metres above sea level, left and right go up almost 1400 meters high on the mountains. On the day the soil dries (loamy, ferrous) quickly out. But we have no major problems with the cultivation of our plants; plenty of water and compost are necessary. The mix of equatorial-wet and desert-dry climate is our special. Greetings, ThaiGer...maybe
, but I have not say that no problemes on our land. Our biggest problem are clean air and water! What can we do? Close our farm exist two plantations: 1 for rubber tree and another for rice. The owner on this large land plots spray every seasons 1000s of liter chemy on plants and soil. We need both: clean soil and air. Our deagon fruits blooming only 1(!) night/season...and we need the nignt-insects for propagation, and the most of insects not flying in the night time. We are happy, that all of the other neigbours used only organic methods. Many time for convincing the neighbours to organic we spend in the last time...