This gloom and cool weather is getting to me. I need sun and warmth. Is there anything good about this constant rain that is supposed to continue until next Thursday?
I am waiting for my garden to wash down the street!
Need help with reasons to appreciate this endless rain
The only one I can think of is saving money on air conditioning!
My sun-loving annuals are stunted and sulking from endless cloudy/rainy days.
The shade-loving plants are fine; glad I went with more impatiens and coleus this spring.
When we finally get the sun, you'll appreciate it more.
Well at least everything is poised and ready to go gangbusters if the sun ever does shine again.
Oh and my hydrangea are very happy this year.
Just as long as we don't let the slugs and Japanese Beatles on two by two.
We don't have to water the garden! That saves on the water bill.
True lower waterbills but my poor Annabelle blooms were in the dirt :(
It's really getting to me, too. Most of my annuals are shade ones, and even they aren't happy. Everything just seems moldy and waterlogged. I hope all the stuff I have in containers will be ok. I think I've only watered a couple of times this season, so that is one good thing. And the slugs, oh dear god, the slugs.....
.....see my slug battle thread I feel your pain.
All my herbs are in containers and the cilantro is a mess. The Tai Basil is yucky........This stinks
I depend on the herbs to carry me through the winter.
Rain, oh rain, please go away,
Desist, cessate, arrest, belay!
My plants face damp despoliation
If we get more precipitation!
Did any of the long-range weather predictors get this pattern right?
Well besides making me depressed and in a funk, the silver lining to this one is that all of my Hosta grew like weeds this year, even the more finicky ones (Tattoo put on 3 extra eyes, made it through the winter, and is looking awesome!). So, there is that. The roses, the poor poor roses...the peonies...if the peonies weren't held up by one of their neighbors....SPLAT...in the mud they went. With the start of this weather, way back in March (I think it was March) we had 3-4 days in the 80's-90's....and everything broke dormancy extra early...so...all of my hostas are blooming NOW...which is crazy, and some of my daylilies started to bloom IN THE foliage...which looks really funny.
The one thing that sure seems to be thriving are weeds. I feel like going out, and spraying everything with RoundUp and starting over :-(
But, like everyone is saying, once the sun does finally show itself, everything should be glorious!
Don't you mean "if" the sun finally shows itself???
Yeah, neighborhood peonies look awful. I don't get why that plant hasn't evolved to the point where it can support it's own wet flowers without the need of staking!
I wish falling was my only peoney concern. My big beautiful blossoms that I staked rotted in no time. It was like "wait till next year"
I'm not so tolerant of this Spring as some of you. I have demanded a refund.
Fitting poem Don. Dave let me know how that refund worked out. Do you think Mom Nature has a TARP program?
Well I got some annuals in between raindrops today. Have two parties this weekend and it will rain for both. At least I can enjoy myself at the parties instead of cursing the events for ruining a good gardening day.
"...The only one I can think of is saving money on air conditioning!..."
Yeah, but I'm still putting on the furnace! Too darn cold to take a shower in the morning without it...
AUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHH
My ladies' mantle: drowned
My David Austin roses: balled and beaten down
My peonies: draggin' in the grass
My underplanted thyme and nepeta: splayed
My tomatoes: already have yellowy spotted looking lower leaves (that I've cut off but still)
My delphinium: don't ask
My cukes: swimming under water
My squash: just sitting there, stunned
My sugar snaps: huge, filled w/ water and tasteless
And, after 4 years of coddling because I'm a natural born clematis killer, my clematis florida finally threw me a bloom: and it looks like wet Kleenex!
My weeds: BIGGER AND BOLDER AND TALLER AND MORE PLENTIFUL THAN EVER
I'M TAKING UP KNITTING ...
Well, for sure there's going to be no drought, water reservoirs will be to their capacity, and there's going to be no water restriction this season.
That's an angry looking Pug - Daisygrrl! My 'Gremlins' are sooo missing the yard.
We had the rain. Now we have heat. Heat index 105 F today. tomorrow. the next day. All next week.
All that grew because of the rain is fried.
The dogs wont go out. They are depressed. Emmagreyhound wants to sleep the whole day under the bed. Henry the rabbit is threatening to check out. He is about 12 already, but he does not like the heat. He spends his days cuddled up to 2 L bottles of ice.
The projection is that this will go on all summer.
Please NE enjoy the rain while you have it.
Hey y'all.
gloria
Water ban sign has been up since June 1--clouds can't read.
Yes you should check into the gardener;s TARP!
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This message was edited Jun 21, 2009 5:45 PM
tex68 love them litle pugs of yours
makes weeding easier
All this rain will help us appreciate the sun more, and the warmth too.
It's helping with the leak in my pool.