Saturation point
I think my garden has reached saturation point and so has my patience. I am going stir crazy because I can’t get out to do any work in the garden. While rain is very beneficial you can eventually have too much of a good thing.
Yes, raindrops are pretty….
Canna leaf
Aeonium ‘Black Cap’
….and some plants are at home in water.
Waterlily in the pond
….but others are weighed down by the rain and are turning to mush!
Rose ‘Ghislaine de Feligonde’
It is time the sun came out – before we all develop gills and webbed feet.
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I so agree! I’ve been joking this week on whether it’s possible to get SAD in July. I reckon we’re losing at least an hour’s light a day with all this gloomy weather :(
Perhaps we need to do house swaps with our American cousins? They have a heatwave and drought!
Yep, yep, yep, it is completely miserable,
:(
K
Oh, yeauch. Wish I hadn’t seen that last photo.
Wish we could just blend our weather a little. Like a cake recipe. A little more rain in our empty dam. An hour of sun for your roses. A few degrees off the heatwave, and posted across to England.
Perish the thought if this summer is a taste of global warming :( Totally fed up with it. Was ridiculously pleased that we almost had a dry day here yesterday and I was able to peg out and dry some washing. How sad is that!
I’m hoping to get up to the plot later today to pick some produce and check how everything faired after yet more torrential rain yesterday. My shed has flooded again. I’m starting to bore myself about thinking and talking about the rain all the time but it’s just so frustrating and it’s meant to get much cooler this week. The word ‘sleet’ was even mentioned on Countryfile’s weather last night, albeit on the hills but even so, it is JULY.
Your rainy English summer is bringing back memories of our rainy summer in 2009. It was so wet that I had to put on head to toe rain gear just to go out and walk around the garden — and forget about trying to do any serious work in the garden. I thought of it as “the lost garden season.” I hope the global weather pattern shifts soon bring dry air and sunshine to you and some of that rain to many parched regions of the US.
Wow, and we’re in stage 2 drought. about half the rainful of normal for the last 3 month. guess we know where it went.
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