Gentle rain, the kindest rain of all. Soaking into the soil without damaging the tender seedlings, or even making the flowers sad. (Edit: well, that was how it was until last night's downpour!) We're into our second day of gentle rain now, after a record midwinter dry spell, and the garden definitely needs every drop it can get.
More usually, after a long dry spell we get pounding rain that brings damage and much needed relief in equal doses. (Edit: talk about speaking too soon ... the more usual pounding, damaging rain arrived last night.) I originally wished a special thankyou to Huey for this lovely, gentle, nurturing rain, but in this re-edited posting, it's "thanks Huey for the rain, but you can back off now".
Anyway, it's good to have the rains arrive, so here's a quick lap of our garden, camera in hand.
Still bare, our frangipani is wearing strings of these watery jewels now. |
Poppies never cope well with rain, but today they're just drooping their heads a little. They'll look up when the sun breaks out. |
Rosemary in bloom with vivid green new growth, too. |
A week away from full flowering, the scadoxus are already glowing like beacons, and opening rapidly now there's rain. |
Aeonium 'Schwartzkopf' looks like it's trying to resist getting wet. |
While in a dark, shady corner this Vriesia bromeliad is putting on a colour party. |
The foodies are loving it. Lettuce planted less than a week ago. |
Potato babies growing noticeably every day. |
Thai limes were fertilised on the weekend, and with this steady watering they'll be flowering and fruiting through summer. |
2 comments:
lovely pictures and captions, I enjoyed this little rainy tour of your garden
Thanks Shivangni
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