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| I am in heaven - it has rained over 4 inches here in the last 3 weeks (first rain since last April), and my garden is so happy! It was supposed to rain starting late this evening, but I woke up this morning to it pouring! Yay! This is normal for us, but each time it happens it seems I am surprised. Last year it hardly rained at all until late Jan/Feb, and it was awful. Most people would not complain about a bright, sunny Winter with temps in the 50s - 70s, but I sure did!
We do get a couple of days without rain in between storms, and I have been going into the garden to weed - but only where I can reach stuff while staying on the patio or driveway or sidewalk - the beds are much too wet. The weeds just come up like they were in butter - it is wonderful. I even got ambitious the other day and attacked a huge tangle of Buff Beauty, Cl Iceberg, and some giant climber I don't know the name of that is growing on our fence. They had all decided to intermingle, which looked great last Spring, but now they were in danger of pulling down the old fence (one of them had leaped over it and was planning on eating my neighbor's garage), and there was dead growth I couldn't get at because of the tangle. So, now they look bare and separate. I fed and mulched them, and in our climate I'll bet they start setting buds again in a couple of weeks. I love this time of year - in our climate it is sort of like Spring - the rains come back, and everything starts growing and blooming. My narcissus are up and starting to bloom. Jackie |
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| Jackie,I'm so envious. We've had a few sprinkles but nothing like the continued rain that makes roses happy and burst into leaf and bloom. I hope that will happen later but it's always an iffy proposition, even more so now with the change in climate patterns. I need to put four more roses and two cypresses in the ground and rain would give them a great start. I'll keep my fingers crossed! Ingrid |
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| Good news, Jackie! I hope everyone gets some needed rain soon. |
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| Like Ingrid, I am envious. We got just under .5-in., from the system just past. We need a lot more. What worries me is that, when our area gets any rain to speak of in November, we often get no more decent rain much after Dec. 1. It slips as far south as Jackie's Bay Area, and is blocked from SoCal by stubborn high-pressure systems, camped over Four Corners. I hope this isn't one of those years. Jeri |
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- Posted by Kippy-the-Hippy 10 Sunset 24 (My Page) on Tue, Nov 20, 12 at 12:56
| We loved the rain here too! The garden and orchard looks so much happier and clean. Our rain gauge put us at over 1.5 inches. I wish we had more rain coming this week. But looks like the 10 day forecast is clear. |
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| I'm in heaven. Haven't had to hand water in over a week now, and we had a marvelous soaking last night so I'm good for at least another 1/2 week if we don't get any more. This area of California is so funny - it's like living in a desert all summer - everything not watered (except for a few really annoying and very large weeds - star thistle, tar weed, tumbleweeds...) is brown and dry and dead. Now the entire property is bright green, and looks (and smells) so beautiful. The roses which really suffer in our summers are at peace, perhaps not pushing out many blooms, but vigorous, healthy, with still enough blooms for me to make at least one solid bouquet every day. And the areas that stretch for sunlight through thick decidious tree coverage are getting their first full sun of the year, as the leaves are rapidly dropping, covering the ground in free mulch. It is such a serene time. I'm so happy to have a 4 day weekend coming up to spend outside in this beauty. |
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| I am happy for all of you receiving rain (here in the desert, we are, too, in our typical hundredths of an inch spurts). I just read some disheartening news. After several weeks of improving conditions in the U.S. drought, things have gotten worse again with Kansas the hardest hit of all. About 4% more of that state's drought stricken acreage has been moved up to the most dire level designation. We're thinking of you, Kansas rose people, and wishing for you a wet winter (and for all those winter wheat growers, too). Diane |
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